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  Kenneth Alwyn, leading light of the British music scene noted for Friday Night is Music Night – obituary

  Kenneth Alwyn, who has died aged 95, was an orchestral conductor who appeared with the BBC Concert Orchestra on Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night for 30 years; he conducted the Japanese premiere of Holst’s The Planets, accompanied Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev dancing at the Bath Festival; and took over performances of Benjamin Britten’s ballet The Prince of the Pagodas from the composer after the work’s premiere in 1957. The following year Alwyn conducted a thrilling account of Tchaikov

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  The play's afoot! Watermill reopens with outdoor Sherlock Holmes comedy

  The play's afoot! Watermill reopens with outdoor Sherlock Holmes comedyThe Berkshire theatre will ‘conjure some joy’ with a new version of The Hound of the Baskervilles performed by a cast of three

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  'Indecently funny in every way' – Peter Cook's legacy by Eddie Izzard, Lucy Porter and more

  'Indecently funny in every way' – Peter Cook's legacy by Eddie Izzard, Lucy Porter and moreHis influence is everywhere – but is the great, groundbreaking comedian being forgotten? Twenty-five years after his death, we reassess his impact

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  Jonathan Miller: man with two brains who straddled the worlds of arts and science

  Miler halted the terms 'Renaissance Man' and 'polymath' but was one of the most wide-ranging intellects of his era.

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  Jonathan Miller: Cultural polymath who left an indelible mark on satire and theatre

  Sir Jonathan Miller, who has died aged 85, was the polymath theatre and opera director, television presenter, writer and artist who rose to fame in the 1960s as part of the stage revue Beyond the Fringe, together with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.Miller was born in St John’s Wood, London, in 1934 to Betty and Emanuel Miller, a psychiatrist. He was educated at Taunton School and St Paul’s School. He went up to St John’s College, Cambridge, to study natural sciences, with a view to en

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  Sir Jonathan Miller obituary

  Sir Jonathan Miller obituary. One of the great British authors, satirists and stage directors who first rose to prominence in Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s

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  Sir Jonathan Miller, theatre director and writer, dies aged 85

  Distinguished theatre director and writer Sir Jonathan Miller has died at the age of 85 after a long battle with Alzheimer's.

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  Jonathan Miller, writer and director, dies aged 85

  Jonathan Miller, writer and director, dies aged 85. Polymath also had career in medicine and was member of Beyond the Fringe comedy team

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  Theatre director Sir Jonathan Miller dead at 85

  He first found fame in Beyond The Fringe.

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  Jonathan Miller death: Theatre director and writer dies, aged 85

  Jonathan Miller, the acclaimed theatre director, writer, broadcaster and actor, has died aged 85, his family have said.Miller achieved fame as part of the Sixties comedy revue Beyond the Fringe, which also starred Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.

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