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  Radio 4 to broadcast long-lost episode of Hancock’s Half Hour featuring Peter Sellers

  ‘The Marriage Bureau’ has not been heard since 1955

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  BBC to broadcast long-lost episode of Hancock’s Half Hour

  The radio show, which has not been repeated since first airing in 1955, will be played on Radio 4 on 18 October

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  Lancashire Telegraph

  Gavin and Stacey actor set to star in a Blackpool Grand Theatre production

  The full cast for SPIKE has been revealed for the show at Blackpool Grand Theatre and you might recognise some famous faces.

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  Hearing Bernard Cribbins is dead is like being told that chocolate digestives have been discontinued

  Bernard Cribbins is dead, and generations are computing the loss. How does it feel? It’s like hearing that the park where you played as a child has fallen into the sea. It’s like being told that chocolate digestives have been discontinued. It’s like someone closing the storybook and placing it on a high shelf, out of reach.

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  Bernard Cribbins obituary

  Character actor especially loved by young audiences for film and TV including Jackanory, The Wombles and The Railway Children

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  May Routh, costume designer who turned Daryl Hannah into a mermaid – obituary

  May Routh, who has died aged 87, was an Emmy-nominated illustrator and designer who created costume sketches and designs for David Bowie, Peter Sellers and Peter O’Toole, for Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees in the 1978 jukebox musical Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – and, perhaps most famously, she made Daryl Hannah’s mermaid costume in Splash!

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  Dominic Frisby: my mission to revive my father’s long-lost WW2 musical masterpiece

  I have an odd professional life. I double as a financial writer and a comedian. It seems to work. I specialise in unacceptable songs; you’re bound to have stumbled across one of them at some point. Apparently, I’m Nigel Farage’s favourite comic.

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  Evening Standard

  Richard Curtis says Will Ferrell should have been nominated for an Oscar for Elf

  Richard Curtis has voiced his disappointment that Will Ferrell was never nominated for an Oscar for his turn in the beloved Christmas movie Elf. The 65-year-old British screenwriter and director, who is behind box office hits such as Love Actually and Bridget Jones’ Diary, made his remarks to reporters at the Oscar Wilde Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday. “I always get very antsy about the fact that Will Ferrell didn’t get nominated for Elf,” Curtis said, according to BBC, when discussing the

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  Richard Curtis says that Will Ferrell should have been nominated for an Oscar for Elf

  ‘Comedies tend to make a bit of money, and then you don’t get the prizes,’ the director said

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  Joe Dunne, stuntman who doubled for Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films – obituary

  Joe Dunne, who has died aged 86, was one of the film industry’s most highly regarded stuntmen and stunt co-ordinators during a 50-year career.

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