The Clitheroe Kid was a BBC Radio comedy show featuring diminutive Northern comic Jimmy Clitheroe in the role of a cheeky schoolboy, who lived with his...
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for his long-running BBC Radio programme, The Clitheroe Kid (1956–72). Jimmy Clitheroe was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England on Christmas Eve, 1921...
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alongside Jimmy Clitheroe in the long running BBC Radio comedy show The Clitheroe Kid (1957–1973). Ross played the part of "Alfie Hall", the dim witted, mismatched...
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programmes such as Take it from Here, Hancock's Half Hour and The Clitheroe Kid. He gradually made the transition to television, where his first major role was...
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Judith Chalmers (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
in The Clitheroe Kid, and was a foil for Ken Dodd in his radio show. Chalmers presented ballroom dancing competition programme Come Dancing for the BBC...
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of the BBC's TV channels. The following list gives some of the more notable ones. Some television series transfer in the other direction. Both the science...
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Renée Houston (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
University Press. ISBN 9781526111975 – via Google Books. "Jimmy Clitheroe as 'THE CLITHEROE KID'". 2 May 1958. p. 31 – via BBC Genome. "Petticoat Line". 28...
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laugh. Williams also played the characters of Theodore Craythorpe & Harry Whittle in the BBC radio comedy series The Clitheroe Kid. He also made regular appearances...
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producing and co-writing The Clitheroe Kid, starring the diminutive comic Jimmy Clitheroe, which ran continuously for sixteen years on the BBC Light Programme...
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BBC Light Programme (redirect from The Light Programme)
Our Ken Billy Cotton Band Show Breakfast Special The Clitheroe Kid Dick Barton – Special Agent Does the Team Think? Desert Island Discs (1945–1946) Easy...
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entertainment producer at the BBC in Manchester, writing and producing shows including The Clitheroe Kid starring Jimmy Clitheroe, The Ken Dodd Show, Listen...
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of 'Clitheroe Kid'". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved June 20, 2018. Paul Feeney (2009). A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping. The History...
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in the Community Cliffhanger The Clitheroe Kid Comedy Album Heroes Coming Alive Composer of the Week Concrete Cow The Consultants Count Arthur Strong's...
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Daphne Oxenford (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
and performed in The Clitheroe Kid radio comedy series from time to time. She played Chrissy's mother in three episodes of Man About the House- Series 4...
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Lysistrata at the Royal Court Theatre. Between 1958 and 1972 she played the part of Jimmy Clitheroe's mother in the BBC Radio Series The Clitheroe Kid. Jennifer...
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Tony Melody (category Male actors from the East Riding of Yorkshire)
doing much the same act together on stage in the theatres. His acting career at the BBC began in radio, appearing in the sitcom The Clitheroe Kid, another...
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Cimarron Tavern The Cinnamon Bear The Cisco Kid City Desk Clara, Lu, and Em Claudia and David Claybourne The Clicquot Club Eskimos The Clitheroe Kid Cloak and...
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Ken The Cabaret of Dr Caligari The Clitheroe Kid Clare in the Community Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show Dead Ringers Elastic Planet The Glums The Goon...
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Tommy Trafford (category People from the Borough of Pendle)
Nelson, where he performed in church productions alongside Jimmy Clitheroe, "The Clitheroe Kid", with whom he went to school. Tommy owned a traditional Blackpool...
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as "the godfather of impressionists". On radio in the 1950s, he appeared in The Clitheroe Kid and the last episode of Hancock's Half Hour; where he impersonated...
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regular on the BBC Radio comedy The Clitheroe Kid Herbert Smith (art director) (1916–2006), production designer for the 1965 movie The Hill Herbert...
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1968 in British radio (category 1968 in the United Kingdom)
the Pops (1955–Present) The Clitheroe Kid (1957–1972) My Word! (1957–1988) Test Match Special (1957–Present) The Today Programme (1957–Present) The Navy...
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1980 in British radio (category 1980 in the United Kingdom)
(The Clitheroe Kid) (born 1902) 26 April – Dame Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Discord in Three Flats) (born 1893) 23 June – John Laurie, actor (The Man...
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1960 in British radio (category 1960 in the United Kingdom)
The Archers (1950–Present) Listen with Mother (1950–1982) From Our Own Correspondent (1955–Present) Pick of the Pops (1955–Present) The Clitheroe Kid...
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1964 in British radio (category 1964 in the United Kingdom)
the Pops (1955–Present) The Clitheroe Kid (1957–1972) My Word! (1957–1988) Test Match Special (1957–Present) The Today Programme (1957–Present) The Navy...
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1967 in British radio (category 1967 in the United Kingdom)
the Pops (1955–Present) The Clitheroe Kid (1957–1972) My Word! (1957–1988) Test Match Special (1957–Present) The Today Programme (1957–Present) The Navy...
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Robert Moreton (category Military personnel from the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames)
Oat (1951), The Time of His Life (1955) and Tons of Trouble (1956). He also appeared in the pilot series of the radio show The Clitheroe Kid in 1956. Moreton...
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The Clitheroe Kid as Mr Humphrey Brocklebank and worked with Les Dawson in his long-running radio show Listen to Les. He has also appeared in the television...
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1969 in British radio (category 1969 in the United Kingdom)
The Archers (1950–Present) Listen with Mother (1950–1982) From Our Own Correspondent (1955–Present) Pick of the Pops (1955–Present) The Clitheroe Kid...
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Dawson, English maritime painter (born 1890) 6 June – Jimmy Clitheroe, aka 'The Clitheroe Kid', English comedian (born 1921) 18 June – Roger Delgado, English...
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