Download or read book IT S FRIDAY IT S CRACKERJACK written by ALAN. STAFFORD and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Line to the Stars written by Heidi Mowforth and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in partnership with the Bluebell Railway, this book celebrates the railway's many appearances on screen over the course of six decades.

Download or read book Forgotten Heroes of Comedy written by Robert Ross and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long overdue and affectionate salute, celebrated comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest, funniest and most fascinating names in comedy from both sides of the Atlantic. Monty Python’s Terry Jones wrote the foreword. With the passionate input of such comics as Tim Brooke-Taylor, Hattie Hayridge, Roy Hudd, Michael Palin, Ross Noble, Chris Addison and Bernard Cribbins, Ross honours these legends of humor who, for a variety of reasons, didn't quite reach the heady heights of stardom or, once they had, couldn't cope with the pressures. Whether it is a favorite from the distant smoke- and ale-stained world of the Music Hall like the great George Robey, or the downbeat poetry of Hovis Presley, who dropped disenchanted bombs on the late 1990s, Forgotten Heroes of Comedy will finally elevate them to the Hall of Fame where they belong. Forgotten, no longer. UK Joe Baker UK Eric Barker UK Alfie Bass UK Michael Bates India (to English parents) David Battley UK Michael Bentine UK Harold Berens UK Wilie Best USA Alec Bregonzi UK Michael Ward UK Douglas Byng UK Marti Caine UK Esma Cannon Australia (but moved to UK) Patrick Cargill UK Jimmy Clitheroe UK Danny Ross UK Billy Dainty UK Janet Davies UK Florence Desmond UK Jerry Desmonde UK Eddie Leslie UK Maidie Dickson UK Charlie Drake UK Jimmy Edwards UK Gus Elen UK Ray Ellington UK Dick Emery UK Pierre Etaix France Barry Evans UK Mario Fabrizi UK Doug Fisher UK Ronald Frankau UK Leslie Fuller UK Dustin Gee UK Peter Glaze UK Tommy Godfrey UK Harry Locke UK Ken Goodwin UK Bernard Gorcey Russia (died USA) Bert Gordon USA Monsewer' Eddie Gray UK Raymond Griffith USA Deryck Guyler UK Brian Hall UK Lloyd Hamilton USA Arthur Haynes UK Richard Hearne UK Dickie Henderson UK Gerard Hoffnung Germany (died UK) Shemp Howard USA Nat Jackley UK Rex Jameson UK Spike Jones USA John Junkin UK Dave King UK Roy Kinnear UK Dennis Kirkland UK Patsy Knox USA Debbie Linden UK Hugh Lloyd UK Malcolm McFee UK Moore Marriott UK Graham Moffatt UK Ray Martine UK Zeppo Marx USA Glenn Melvyn UK Eric Merriman UK Christopher Mitchell UK Albert Modley UK Robert Moreton UK Gladys Morgan UK Lily Morris UK Richard Murdoch UK Tom E. Murray USA David Nixon UK Larry Noble UK Ole Olsen USA Chic Johnson USA Ken Platt UK Sandy Powell UK Vince Powell UK Hovis Presley UK Cardew Robinson UK Joe E. Ross USA Patsy Rowlands UK Derek Roy UK Derek Royle UK Leslie Sarony UK Larry Semon USA Ronald Shiner UK Johnnie Silver USA Dennis Spicer UK Larry Stephens UK Jake Thackray UK Thelma Todd USA Jack Train UK Karl Valentin Germany Liesl Karlstadt Germany Norman Vaughan UK Tom Walls UK Ralph Lynn UK Elsie and Doris Waters UK Rita Webb UK John Wells UK George and Kenneth Western UK Gordon Wharmby UK Bert Wheeler USA Robert Woolsey USA Albert Whelan Australia (died UK) Robb Wilton UK Mike and Bernie Winters UK Georgie Wood UK Dolly Harmer UK Harry Worth UK Mario Zampi Italy (died UK)

Download or read book This is Going to Hurt written by Adam Kay and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a major new BBC comedy-drama starring BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor Ben Whishaw The multi-million copy bestseller now with an exclusive new preface by the author Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know – and more than a few things you didn't – about life on and off the hospital ward. Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over a year and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year.

Download or read book The Little Book of 1950s written by Stuart Hylton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little Book of the 1950s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from post-war austerity to the swinging sixties. There are dramas, tragedies, scandals, and characters galore, all packaged in an easily readable "dip-in" format. We can see how major national and international events impacted on the population at home, the progress made by technology, and the fads and fancies of fashion and novelty. We also see how different the world of the 1950s was to the one that we inhabit, though some things, like Cliff Richard, never change from one millennium to the next. Even those who lived through the decade (and are therefore experts on the subject) should find plenty to remind, surprise, amuse, and inform them on these pages.

Download or read book A 1950s Childhood written by Paul Feeney and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember Pathé News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age. But for those born around then, this era of childhood feels like yesterday. This delightful collection of photographic memories will appeal to all who grew up in this post-war decade; they include pictures of children enjoying life out on the streets and bombsites, at home and at school, on holiday and at events. These wonderful period pictures and descriptive captions will bring back this decade of childhood, and jog memories about all aspects of life as it was in post-war Britain.

Download or read book Crackerjack written by Shea Rose and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel approach to an ageless life-lesson...crime doesn't pay. A talented stenographer covering the State Government Commissions and Task Forces assists the Attorney General's Office in discovery of an unsavory escapade perpetrated by a State-regulated hospital's top execs who duped the Health Department into granting them $5.5 million under the auspices of emergency funding relief.. A State's public hospital's three execs are a motley crew. But their extravagant $5.5 million scheme would not bypass the brilliance of the Attorney General's Senior Counsel, Alonzo Prier. Revered for his intellect, compassionate yet non-compromising style, and bodacious good looks, Alonzo cuts straight to the chase with the help of the talented and tenacious State stenographer, Cindy Jack. Aiming to impress Alonzo, Cindy excerpts and gives Alonzo the transcripts where she'd recorded testimonies at a State Task Force commissioned for studying the feasibility of deregulation of the hospital industry. Straight from one of the perp's own mouth, he reveals the impetus for their scheme-gone-haywire! Will Cindy's efforts assist Alonzo in cracking the case? REVIEW: CrackerJack by Shea Rose is a novel about wanting to be "tussled." Not even knowing what such a word could mean, Cindy Jack takes a few minutes out of her morning routine to look it up. Little does Cindy know that these few minutes are going to have her late for another day of work. Despite how boring life as a stenographer is, Cindy can't help but feel that something is on the horizon. She isn't wrong. When Alonzo Pier returns to her life as the big man on campus, Cindy can already envision them "tussling" with one another. The problem is that Alonzo is busy tussling with matters of his own. When those in high places are said to have had the Health Department grant them as much as five million dollars, Alonzo has a desire to know why. If Cindy can fulfill this desire of his, could he be the one to fulfill this desire that she has to be tussled? While it's usually boring to read about a character getting dressed in the morning, the clothes in Cindy's closet are described in such detail that they're actually fun to read about. I want that black skirt. I want that white shirt. I want those low heels. I want it all. Because there's a lot of talk about dressing up and going out, this book reads a lot more like a romance novel than anything else. While the suspense is there, one could argue that it's overshadowed by all of the romance. Rather than complement one another, I actually feel that the suspense and romance clash. While the romance was goofy in the best way, the goofiness of the romance took away from the seriousness of the suspense. Just when Cindy appears to be working, she's striking poses from behind her stenotype machine. If that isn't a good example of how wishy-washy this story can be, I don't know what is. One thing that's always clear is the imagery. Rather than just detailing the scene, the author has a way of framing the picture. When Cindy is said to watch the folks come and go from various directions, I can really visualize the crowd and how animated it is. For a minute there, I felt just as lost in the crowd as Cindy appeared to have been. All things considered; I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. By: Brett Linette - OnlineBookClub

Download or read book Head Trauma written by Nick Smith and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous yet honest look at the education system, from trainee to headteacher across an extraordinary thirty-year career.

Download or read book The Double Act written by Andrew Roberts and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The double act has been at the heart of the British entertainment scene for over 150 years: from its start in the music halls, through radio shows such as Hancock's Half Hour playing in virtually every household and on cinema and television, from Carry On films to Withnail and I. Explore the influence of comedy duos on their audience and how their performances evolved over time, the importance of the subtle art of the straight man next to the comic and discover some acts who might have passed you by. This book is a tribute to the comedians who have entertained the public for so long, dedicating their lives to adding a bit of laughter to the mundane everyday. The Double Act will appeal to all lovers of British comedy as it takes them through the golden moments of its history.

Download or read book Shakespeare and Sexuality in the Comedy of Morecambe Wise written by Stephen Hamrick and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century’s most successful double-act. Over the course of a forty-four-year career (1940-1984), Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise appropriated snippets of verse, scenes, and other elements from seventeen of Shakespeare’s plays more than one-hundred-and-fifty times. Fashioning a kinder, more inclusive world, they deployed a vast array of elements connected to Shakespeare, his life, and institutions. Rejecting claims that they offer only nostalgic escapism, Hamrick analyses their work within contemporary contexts, including their engagement with many forms and genres, including Variety, the heritage industry, journalism, and more. ‘The Boys’ deploy Shakespeare to work through issues of class, sexuality, and violence. Lesbianism, drag, gay marriage, and a queer aesthetics emerge, helping to normalize homosexuality and complicate masculinity in the ‘permissive’ 1960s.

Download or read book Worlds in Common written by Ulrike H. Meinhof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds in Common? examines the newly emerging forms of language used in satellite television programmes, exploring a wide range of genres including twenty-four hour news broadcasting, culture channels, talk shows, local TV and European news. Focusing on the experiences of British and German viewers, the authors discuss these new forms of communication brought about by the technological and economic upheavals in Europe in the late 1990s. This interaction between media theories and media discourses, makes the book highly relevant for researchers in media and cultural studies as well as linguistics, and provides an important and innovatory link between these different approaches.

Download or read book The Beatles Off the Record written by Keith Badman and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2009-12-09 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatles Off The Record is the most comprehensive oral history of The Beatles ever published - an 'as it happened' story of the greatest pop group of them all. Featuring a wealth of quotes from the Sixties by John, Paul, George and Ringo themselves and a host of others who were close to the group during the heady days of Beatlemania and beyond, including their families, fellow musicians, Brian Epstein, George Martin and dozens more. As Hunter Davis, The Beatles official biographer, states in his foreword; ...compared with some of The Beatles' later selective and polished or faulty and fading memories, this is much nearer the truth. Well, as it appeared to be, at the time...

Download or read book A 1960s Childhood written by Paul Feeney and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods and Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the chances are you were born in the or around 1960. To the young people of today, the 1960s seems like another age. But for those who grew up in this decade, school life, 'mod' fashions and sixties pop music are still fresh in their minds. From James Bond to Sindy dolls and playing hopscotch in the street, life was very different to how it is now. After the tough and frugal years of the fifties, the sixties was a boom period, a time of changed attitudes and improved lifestyles. With chapters on home and school life, games and hobbies, music and fashion, alongside a selection of charming illustrations, this delightful compendium of memories will appeal to all who grew up in this lively era. Take a nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up during the sixties and recapture all aspects of life back then.

Download or read book A 1980s Childhood written by Derek Tait and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What it was like to grow up in 1980s Britain, from the Cold War to Duran Duran. This book combines memories, original documents and photos from that time.

Download or read book Mischief Morality and Mobs written by Dick Hobbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, social theory, social history, criminology and sociology. In particular, his work has had a huge impact upon studies of youth, youth culture and drugs. This collection is made up of contributions from scholars producing empirical work on some of the key areas upon which Geoff Pearson established his reputation. All of the writers in this collection have been profoundly influenced by his scholarship. This collection focuses on urban ethnography, race and ethnicity, youth, and drugs. It includes chapters on: women working in male boxing gyms; understanding the English Defence League; Black male adults as an ignored societal group; drug markets and ethnography; and sex, drugs and kids in care. The result is a cutting edge collection that takes readers into social worlds that are difficult to access, complex, yet utterly normal. Overall this is an exciting and fittingly challenging tribute to one of the UKs most important scholars. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of criminology, sociology, social history and research methodology – in particular ethnography.

Download or read book Escaping Suburbia written by David J Eveleigh and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination with the past. With a vivid eye for detail and boundless childhood curiosity for everything from steam trains to 'My Old Man's a Dustman', his account documents the uneasy relationship between worlds old and new. Featuring unique photographs and authoritative observations on architecture, social and local history based on forty years' work in museums and heritage conservation, Escaping Suburbia offers a different view of the 'swinging' sixties.

Download or read book Uncut Diamonds written by Maggie Hamand and published by Arcadia Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These vibrant, original stories showcase the huge diversity of new writing talent in contemporary London. They include an incident in a women's prison; a spiritual experience in a motorway service station; the thoughts of an immigrant cleaning houses; a child's eye view of growing up in sixties Britain, and a lyrical West Indian love story."--BOOK JACKET.