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    Norman Hackforth (20 December 1908 – 14 December 1996) was a British musician and radio broadcaster, who worked as accompanist to Noël Coward and gained...
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  • audience by a "mystery voice" (originally Norman Hackforth from 1947 to 1962; he was later a regular panelist). Hackforth became well known amongst the British...
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    Norman Forbes-Robertson - Victorian Shakespearean actor William Gardner - English coin designer, engraver, calligrapher and writer Norman Hackforth -...
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  • panel game Twenty Questions, along with Joy Adamson, Anona Winn and Norman Hackforth. Glaze was the son of an actor-manager and began his career in entertainment...
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    Srivastava (Ritviz) Chitragupta Anand–Milind Bapi Tutul Ramashreya Jha Norman Hackforth Vidyapati Nagarjun Ramdhari Singh Dinkar Ramesh Chandra Jha Bismillah...
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    Coward, with Norman Hackforth at the piano, performing for sailors aboard HMS Victorious in Ceylon, August 1944...
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  • 1 September 2009. Horne has been the subject of two biographies, Norman Hackforth's Solo for Horne in 1976 and Barry Johnston's Round Mr Horne: The Life...
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    Maithili Thakur Ritviz Chitragupta Anand–Milind Bapi Tutul Ramashreya Jha Norman Hackforth Sharma 2007, p. 33-45. Sharma, Manorma (2007). Musical Heritage of...
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  • 28 November – Anna Pollak, operatic mezzo-soprano, 84 14 December – Norman Hackforth, accompanist and broadcaster, 87 15 December – Dave Kaye, pianist,...
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  • was scheduled to perform in Las Vegas, but without his accompanist Norman Hackforth who had been denied a US work permit. Coward was impressed with Matz...
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  • the ground and the crude outdoor 'ablutions'". Horne's biographer Norman Hackforth writes that after the first broadcast in January 1944, the show "wasn't...
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  • The Charlot Girls Musical Moments: An Interlude of Song and Dance Norman Hackforth, Eric Randolph, Harris Sisters, Alma Vane Notes and Notions Gwen Farrar...
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  • Questions panelist Richard Dimbleby as himself, Twenty Questions panelist Norman Hackforth as himself, Twenty Questions mystery voice Stewart MacPherson as himself...
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  • customary winter holiday in Jamaica in December 1953. His music director, Norman Hackforth, flew to Jamaica to help him finish the score after Christmas. The...
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  • Alistair Cooke, English-born news commentator (died 2004) 20 December – Norman Hackforth, Indian-born British musical accompanist and radio "mystery voice"...
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  • Coward, with additional items by Joyce Grenfell, Richard Addinsell and Norman Hackforth. The show was Coward's first post-World War II musical and starred...
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    and television personality and cartoonist (born 1937) December 14 – Norman Hackforth, British musical accompanist and radio "mystery voice" (born 1908)...
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  • Independent (2 July 1996) Les Allen; The Independent (Monday 5 August 1996) Norman Hackforth; The Independent (Wednesday 18 December 1996) Harry Davis; The Independent...
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  • comic performer, broadcast personality and cartoonist 14 December – Norman Hackforth, 87, musical accompanist and radio "mystery voice" 1996 in British...
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  • Richard Dimbleby, Jack Train, Anona Winn and Joy Adamson and with Norman Hackforth as the mystery voice. 9 April – How Does Your Garden Grow? debuts on...
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    20 October 1957. Retrieved 31 August 2020. "Composer at the Piano: Norman Hackforth". Genome Beta BBC. 26 January 1947. Retrieved 31 August 2020. "Kaleidoscope"...
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  • Robert Waterman (1 episode) Paul Denny as Mick Lancaster (1 episode) Penne Hackforth-Jones as Nell Clasby (2 episodes) Petra Yared as Beryl Routledge (1 episode)...
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  • Illustrated Companion. London: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-4234-2. Hackforth, Norman (1976). Solo for Horne: A Biography of Kenneth Horne. London: Angus...
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  • sacrifice. Sheila Hancock as Olga Vandemeer Michael Hordern as Sir Charles Hackforth Joe Melia as Flash Harry Thorley Walters as Hugo Culpepper Brown Rodney...
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  • The Cousin from Fiji (category Novels by Norman Lindsay)
    from a script by Barbara Vernon, and featured Ruth Cracknell, Penne Hackforth-Jones, Judy McBurney and Patrick Ward. The mini-series was broadcast on...
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  • continued in Tandarra: Joe Brady (Gus Mercurio) and Jessica Johnson (Penne Hackforth-Jones). The other main character was Ryler (Gerard Kennedy), who had been...
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  • Zola: a feminist companion. London: Cape. ISBN 978-0-2240-3535-4. Hackforth, Norman (1976). Solo for Horne: A Biography of Kenneth Horne. London: Angus...
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  • Treherne Charles Mayer - Philippe Allard Edmund Pegge - Mr. Craig Penne Hackforth-Jones - Mrs. Craig Mouche Phillips - Daphne Craig Gil Tucker - Sam Briggs...
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  • Gyngell as Reporter Penne Hackforth-Jones Vicki Hammond as Maggie Baker / Maggie Hayward Olivia Hamnett as Meg Fulton Norman Hancock as Tom Edmunds Susan...
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  • (1885–1963), founder of employee-owned John Lewis Partnership Reginald Hackforth (1887–1957), classical scholar, professor of Ancient Philosophy at University...
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