Peter Cook
Born | November 17, 1937 |
Hometown | Torquay, England |
Height | 6'2" (1.88m) |
Spouse | Chiew Lin Chong (m 1989 - 1995) , Judy Huxtable (m 1973 - 1989) , Wendy Snowden (m 1963 - 1971) |
Children | Daisy Cook , Lucy Cook |
Parents | Ethel Catherine Margaret , Alexander Edward Cook |
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Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?
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The Christian leader trying to break America’s link between faith and guns
The Christian leader trying to break America’s link between faith and guns. Peter Cook says in the aftermath of the Buffalo racist shooting white Christian denominations have a duty to act
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Bob Wellings, broadcaster who became a cherished fixture of 1970s television on Nationwide and That’s Life! – obituary
Bob Wellings, who has died aged 87, became a television mainstay in the 1970s as one of the regular hosts of the BBC’s popular Nationwide magazine programme.
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‘Don’t start a sex scene when your mother-in-law is visiting’: how I wrote a novel in a month
In November, Guardian writer Tim Jonze joined half a million others taking part in National Novel Writing Month. Could he get to the end – and would it be any good?
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Kevin Billington, director who made his mark with radical documentaries in the 1960s and later with polished BBC adaptations and theatre – obituary
Kevin Billington, who has died aged 87, was in many ways the archetypal 1960s success story. From a working-class home in Warrington, he made his reputation as a director with a series of award-winning BBC documentaries throughout the decade, working first with the presenter Alan Whicker and then pioneering the no-narrator style that is now so ubiquitous.
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‘Rainbow’ George Weiss, serial political fringe candidate, former squatter and Hampstead chum of Peter Cook – obituary
“Rainbow” George Weiss, who has died aged 81, was a former diamond dealer, apprentice prophet, lifelong Newcastle United supporter, drinking buddy of the comedian Peter Cook – and self-styled “Hampstead village idiot”.
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‘I just can’t believe it exists’: Peter Jackson takes us into the Beatles vault locked up for 52 years
‘I just can’t believe it exists’: Peter Jackson takes us into the Beatles vault locked up for 52 years. Ahead of his epic series Get Back, the director reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four – and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside down
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Not rotten: Ex-Sex Pistol defends TV show in row with singer
Former Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones has told a London court that he dislikes former bandmate John Lydon and hasn’t spoken to him since 2008
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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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