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| Abandoned Projects | ...peggy ramsay....MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| Afternoon Play | ...Kate....MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| Aled Jones | ...Says Good Morning Sunday to film and television icon MAUREEN LIPMAN, who talks about life following the death of her husband, playwright Jack Rosenthal. Aled also talks to former drug addict Mark Johnson and the man who helped him, Sean Evans.... |
| Best Of Bombeck, The | ...Family humorist Erma Bombeck takes the lid off the American home. Read by MAUREEN LIPMAN and abridged in five parts by Jane Marshall.... |
| Bona History Of Julian And Sandy, The | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN introduces this celebration of all things dolly about the camp twosome double act Julian and Sandy, from the popular radio series `Round the Horne.'... |
| Brush With Fame, A | ...Written and read by MAUREEN LIPMAN ... |
| Casual Slaughters | ...Perry Pontac's 1930s comedy. Amateur sleuth Sir Nicholas Ovalmere and his adoring secretary Nottage rush into action on learning that Lord Bavidge has been receiving death threats - written in his own blood. With Peter Jeffrey and MAUREEN LIPMAN. Director Marion Nancarrow ... |
| Choice Grenfell | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN reinterprets the monologues, letters and songs of comedian Joyce Grenfell.... |
| Chosen For Christmas | ...`The Best of Bombeck' by Erma Bombeck. MAUREEN LIPMAN reads an extract in which Bombeck comments on CHRISTMAS news letters. Abridged by Jane Marshall ... |
| Christmas Panto | ...by Stewart Permutt and Debbie Barham. The shocking story of Cinderella and her facially challenged sisters is retold. With John Bird, MAUREEN LIPMAN, Peter Capaldi, Ruthie Henshall, Arthur Smith, Angus Deayton, John Gordon Sinclair and Patricia Hodge. Director Bruce Hyman.... |
| Clive Anderson's Chat Room | ...Clive Anderson presents a hard-edged chat show. Guests include Arthur Smith, MAUREEN LIPMAN, Nick Robinson and MP Bob Marshall-Andrews ... |
| Comedy Catch Up | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN compiles and reinterprets monologues, letters and songs originally written and performed by Joyce Grenfell.... |
| Daisy Miller | ...... |
| Dear Joyce, Dear Ginnie | ...A selection of the letters of Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham read by MAUREEN LIPMAN and Janie Hampton.... |
| Event Of The Season, The | ...Starring: Geraldine McEwan/MAUREEN LIPMAN/George Baker.... |
| For - The Future Of Radio | ...Pundits, pop stars, professors and personalities including Douglas Adams, Chris Evans, Susan Greenfield, Sir Peter Hall, MAUREEN LIPMAN, Jo Wiley and Theodore Zeldin consider some of the exciting possibilities open to radio in the 21st century.... |
| Free Gift | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN portrays an ENGLISHwoman in NEW YORK who found the most wonderful free gift when a child was left on her doorstep. She lives in fear that the gift might be taken away.... |
| Galton And Simpson's Half Hour | The legendary writing partnership of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson began in 1949, when the pair met whilst undergoing treatment for TB at Milford Sanitorium. By 1951 they were writing professionally for the BBC and they have since written over 600 scripts and won numerous awards for their work on radio, TV and film, including Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe And Son. Radio 2 marks the 60th anniversary of their writing partnership with a series of half-hour comedies, starring Frank Skinner, Mitchell & Webb, Rik Mayall, June Whitfield and Paul Merton. They were originally written for television by Ray and Alan and have been especially adapted by them for Radio 2. Paul Merton introduces each episode. ...The drama was first broadcast on Yorkshire Television back in 1974 and starred Brian Glover, MAUREEN LIPMAN and Peter Jones ... |
| Happiness Lectures, The | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| Hats Off | ...Joyce Grenfell's poems, read by MAUREEN LIPMAN and introduced by Janie Hampton.... |
| Hoop Lane | ...Her....MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| I Married A Marxist | ...... |
| Jack Rosenthal's Last Act | ...When the late, great Jack Rosenthal finally wrote his memoirs, he did so in the form he understood best - the screenplay. This unique series was abridged and adapted by his daughter Amy Rosenthal from her father's original scripts and features his wife MAUREEN LIPMAN.... |
| Joyce Grenfell At The Aldeburgh Festival | ...Writer and entertainer Joyce Grenfell was a fan of Aldeburgh, not missing a festival from 1962 until her death in 1979, and writing daily letters of her experiences to her friend Virginia Graham. Janie Hampton, Grenfell's biographer, presents a compilation of these letters, read by MAUREEN LIPMAN, revealing a candid, gossipy and surprisingly insightful portrait of the Festival, Benjamin Britten and Aldeburgh itself.... |
| Just A Minute | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN, Paul Merton, Peter Jones, Clement Freud ... |
| Lean On Me | ...With Julia Mckenzie, MAUREEN LIPMAN, Gary Waldhorn and Stephen Mangan... |
| Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day | ...By Winifred Watson. MAUREEN LIPMAN reads one of her favourite books, a touching and funny bestseller from the 30s about an unmarried governess who is sent by her agency to the wrong booking. Her employer greets her in her negligee and has a man in her room. In the face of such shocking behaviour, will Miss Pettigrew blunder or blossom? Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury ... |
| Newfangle | Cast and Crew |
| News Quiz, The [ok] | ...Jeremy Hardy, Charles Kennedy, MAUREEN LIPMAN, Alan Coren, Peter Donaldson.... |
| Ones To Watch | ...Read by MAUREEN LIPMAN ... |
| Ovid Metamorphosed | ...by Margaret Atwood, read by MAUREEN LIPMAN. Sibyl, prophetess and millionaire proprietor of a Californian retirement home recalls the perils of asking a god for immortality.... |
| Postscript | ...An entertainment compiled by and starring MAUREEN LIPMAN recreating monologues, sketches and songs originally written and performed by the great comedienne Joyce Grenfell. Featuring `In the Train', in which a chatty American chorus girl remembers the kindness of an ENGLISH actor whose funeral she has just attended; and `Tristram', who finds God, to the despair and embarrassment of his liberal parents. `Two CHRISTIAN Scientists', written by Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham, is set to music by Denis King.... |
| Private Passions | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| Rose And The Ring, The | ...By William Makepeace Thackeray, adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. Rome, 1853. Unable to find any Christmas entertainment for the four children in his charge, Thackeray invents his own fireside pantomime to keep them amused. With Prunella Scales and MAUREEN LIPMAN ... |
| Ruth Draper And Her Company Of Characters | ...David Benson introduces extracts from the incomparable Ruth Draper's monologues, with reflections from MAUREEN LIPMAN and Joyce Grenfell.... |
| Sex After Death | ...Miriam Cooper....MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| Stand-ups And Strumpets | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| Stanley Baxter And Friends | ...By Laurence Howarth With Claire Bloom and MAUREEN LIPMAN A story of art, marriage and growing old disgracefully. Sir Leslie McKinsey RA is one of the country's best-loved artists, famous for one thing and one thing only: his highly popular paintings of elephants. For this year's summer exhibition at the Royal Academy in London he's done a new set of paintings which is different. Very different. Has he gone mad? And has he reckoned without the ire of the president of his fan club, his rival, the art critic - and even his previously devoted wife?... |
| Stanley Baxter Story, The | ...Eddie Izzard presents a rare profile of comedy actor, Stanley Baxter. For many of a certain generation, Stanley Baxter is a part of their childhood or their adolescence, a comic who would turn up on TV from time to time and then, as often as not, disappear for another year. Stanley became more painstaking with his shows as the years rolled by and by the mid 1970s he was only doing one show a year - at Christmas. But what shows they were! Snappy one-liner sketches forming the comedy grout for great production number parodies of Hollywood movies, in which Stanley played all the parts. He was Mae West in an alternative Gone With The Wind; he was Katherine Hepburn in a version of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner? where Sidney Poitier would have been welcomed with open arms; and he was Judy Garland in an Oz ruled by Ronald Reagan. He began his career during wartime on the BBC Scottish Home Service, after making a local name for himself doing impressions in Glasgow church halls. After a spell in the army in National Service, Stanley joined the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre where he learnt his craft under the highly respected director Tyrone Guthrie. Another member of the Citizens' was Jimmy Gilbert, who moved to London and invited Stanley to take part in a television revue series he was putting together in 1959. On the Bright Side was a success and Stanley was on his way.He did several sketch series for the BBC in the years that followed but by the mid 70s, he was down to one minutely crafted Christmas show a year, working with the same writer, Ken Hoare and the same director, David Bell, every time. His most recent outing was an archive Christmas special last year on ITV with one or two new sketches.Stanley is a comedian who is an impressionist but whose impressions work in spirit rather than accuracy - he is first and foremost a comedy actor. He is also a perfectionist, something that may have worked against him in a world where television budgets have shrunk. But the shows are gems, polished jewels forever captured in the amber of comedy history. Interviewees include MAUREEN LIPMAN; Julia Mckenzie; Denise Coffey; TV director/producers Jimmy Gilbert, Tom Gutteridge, John Kaye Cooper and John Bishop; actor David Kernan; film director Ken Annakin; Barry Cryer; TV boss Jim Moir; Gordon Kennedy; Justin Edwards; and Stanley Baxter himself, along with many of his character creations.... |
| That Reminds Me | ...MAUREEN LIPMAN... |
| Tortoise | ...Directed by MAUREEN LIPMAN with Dirk Maggs ... |
| Turns Of The Century | ...Another chance to hear the series celebrating great comedy performers. Today, MAUREEN LIPMAN looks at Joyce Grenfell ... |
| Unexpected Vonnegut - Who Am I This Time? | ...Doris and Lydia....MAUREEN LIPMAN ... |
| We've Been Here Before | ...BBC listings have wrongly said MAUREEN LIPMAN was in S1E5, and Linda Smith in S1E2.... |
| When Housewives Had The Choice | ...1. ""This Year Of Grace"" (1956). Russell Davies & MAUREEN LIPMAN tell the tale of the Light Programme's long-running request show, its origins in Sweden & how it catered for women at home. Produced by Jonathan James-Moore.... |
| Woman's Hour At 60 | ...Jenni Murray and Martha Kearney host a celebration of 60 years on air, as Woman's Hour listeners describe the impact the programme has had on their lives. With MAUREEN LIPMAN, Patricia Routledge, Prunella Scales, Jo Caulfield and Jackie Kay. Music from Hayley Westenra and Heather Small.... |