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Dear David Jason, might you be my biological father? As a young actor, the Only ...
The Daily Mail 05 Oct 2024
There's a photograph somewhere of the cast of a 1970s production of Under Milk Wood, at the Mermaid Theatre in London ... Yes, a cravat ... The letter went on ... Could it? ... Joyce Grenfell and Les Dawson, such was Ronnie's public standing at the end of his life ... .
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New Surrey Venue the Great Green Barn Autumn Season Announced
Pressat 22 Aug 2024
Joyce Grenfell was one of the greatest female entertainers of the twentieth century; loved the world over for her hilarious and beautifully observed monologues and songs, as well as numerous film, television and radio appearances.
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Should Fergie be back in the Royal fold?
The Daily Mail 06 Jun 2024
Orf with her head!, by Julie Burchill ... Seeing Sarah Ferguson repeatedly in the news again recently, I can’t help wondering whether the wily old Firm are doing the same ... She added ... Sarah seemed a girl’s girl, oozing a Joyce Grenfell sense of ‘can-do’ ... .
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ESTHER RANTZEN: I asked Mail readers to help me plan my funeral. Your choices - ...
The Daily Mail 10 Apr 2024
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The week in theatre: Faith Healer; Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon – review
The Observer 24 Mar 2024
As Grace, Justine Mitchell is phenomenal ... View image in fullscreen ... Photograph ... There are also audio clips from a scout leader, played by Maxine Peake with a pitch-perfect condescension that recalls Joyce Grenfell’s classic comic sketch Nursery School ... .
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LIZ JONES: Yes, of course, Harry and Meghan have made mistakes. But the Royals have ...
The Daily Mail 15 Feb 2024
Yet I for one cannot help but be bewitched by them ... What will she be wearing? Ripped jeans and flats or Paris couture? Who will descend the steps first? ... As if we care ... Princess Anne being held up as a trouper, but she’s as glamorous as Joyce Grenfell ... .
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LIZ JONES: If the latest news about Fergie teaches us anything, it is to be kind ...
The Daily Mail 30 Jan 2024
They say bad news always comes in threes. First, we heard the Princess of Wales required abdominal surgery and will now take a considerable time to convalesce ... But she was never just the bumbling, slightly clumsy Joyce Grenfell figure ... .
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George Logan death: Pioneering Hinge and Bracket drag star dies aged 78
AOL 22 May 2023
“I don’t think we did,” he said ... I think we were sort of basing our characters on the likes of Joyce Grenfell, Margaret Rutherford… a sort of typical, if strange, rural, old English village life.” ... .
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What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Thursday
RTE 04 May 2023
A Bridgerton Story lands on Netflix . . Pick of the Day ... Don’t Miss. Home Rescue ... That’s followed at 10.45pm by a comedy classic from 1957, Blue Murder at St Trinian's, starring Lionel Jeffries, Joyce Grenfell, Terry-Thomas, George Cole and Alistair Sim.
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The biography Noël Coward deserves
The Spectator 14 Mar 2023
The prejudices of the time extended from Joyce Grenfell (‘It is definitely a pity that the man who represents this country should be famous as a queer’) to that notorious stinker and closet queen Hugh Dalton (‘of course he is a roaring pansy’) ... .
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Miranda Hart: ‘My preshow rituals? A banana and a poo’
The Guardian 02 Mar 2023
It was as clear as day to me, even though I can only have been eight or nine ... For surely that was a key part of life ... My sister and I had learned some Victoria Wood sketches and I’d learned some Joyce Grenfell monologues.
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Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood review – tales of love and age
The Observer 01 Mar 2023
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DAN HODGES: Truculence. Leaks. And now sabotage. Whitehall's Blob is seizing the challenge to take ...
The Daily Mail 28 Jan 2023
Describing the mood among civil servants in her department, one Minister channelled an inner Joyce Grenfell. Adopting the tone of the much-missed St Trinian’s actress, she said ... Civil servants sense change is in the air ... ‘It’s leaking like a sieve ... .
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Dame Frances Campbell-Preston obituary
The Times/The Sunday Times 24 Nov 2022
As ever, she turned to her sister-in-law, the entertainer Joyce Grenfell, for advice, who told her that it would be hell.
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