Showing posts with label Not the Nine o'Clock News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Not the Nine o'Clock News. Show all posts
Saturday, 5 May 2012

399: The Romans in Britain

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“The Romans in Britain” was a play by Howard Brenton first staged in 1980 by the National Theatre. The play alternates between contemporary ...
Saturday, 20 February 2010

381: Golden Chestnuts III

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Another long-running English joke. “Heaven” is the gay London nightclub, established in 1979. The name is obviously a bit cheeky, and so pro...
Monday, 15 February 2010

380: Golden Chestnuts II

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Oh please, Dr Freud, I enquire in a faux-naif fashion as a perfectly normal macho man, please tell me what my incessant dreams of phallic ob...
Sunday, 30 August 2009

282: Anthony Blunt 3

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At the beginning of November 1979 Anthony Boyle published “The Climate of Treason”. The book could not explicitly refer to Blunt, but it sti...
Sunday, 23 December 2007

35 - Gay Lib - Not! The General Election

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from "Not! The General Election", edited by John Lloyd, Sphere Books, 1983 THE NATIONAL GAY ALLIANCE PARTY The National Gay Allian...
Sunday, 18 November 2007

5.5 - Not The Nine O'Clock News

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“Not The Nine O’Clock News” 23 October 1979 – Rowan Atkinson Aha, found it on youtube. The swivels from attempting to appear sympathetic and...

5 - Not The Nine O'Clock News

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from "Not! The Nine O'Clock News" BBC Books, 1980 In the days before VCRs, popular comedy programmes often used to "prese...