Workers' Playtime was a British radio variety programme transmitted by the BBC between 1941 and 1964. Originally intended as a morale-booster for industrial...
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Workers' or Workers Playtime may refer to: Workers' Playtime (radio programme), a BBC radio programme (1941–64) Workers Playtime (album), a music album...
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the Wireless Woman's Hour Word of Mouth The Wordsmiths of Gorsemere Workers' Playtime The World as We Know It The World at One The World This Weekend The...
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The BBC Light Programme was a national radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and light music from 1945 until 1967, when...
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Alun Williams (category Welsh radio presenters)
successful radio programmes in the 1950s including Welsh Rarebit and Workers' Playtime, and went on to present a number of long-running programmes in both...
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1970s Woman's Hour (1946–present): Long running magazine programme for women. Workers' Playtime (1941–1964): Lunchtime variety show. The World at One (1965–present):...
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Music While You Work (category 1940 radio programme debuts)
Workers' Playtime. This one-off programme differed from the original series as it was staged before an audience and the items were announced. A radio...
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The Day Today (category BBC programme template using Wikidata)
and Chris Morris and is an adaptation of the radio programme On the Hour, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between 9 August 1991 and 28 May 1992 and...
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Variety Bandbox (category 1944 radio programme debuts)
orchestras. Billy Cotton Band Show Comedy Bandbox Workers' Playtime Albert Modley "Variety Band-Box". Radio Times. Vol. 82, no. 1065 (National ed.). BBC Publications...
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were characters played by Elsie and Doris Waters in the radio variety show Workers' Playtime that did much to lift morale during the war. Colour footage...
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went on the programme to play his cover, with regular accompanist Cara Tivey on piano. Bragg released his fourth album, Workers Playtime, in September...
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after the group made their first broadcasts with BBC Radio on such programmes as Workers' Playtime and The Goon Show, Dick James decided to resume his...
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BBC programmes aimed at young children such as Play School and, on Radio 4, Listening Corner and Playtime. She had been a residential social worker in...
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Dick Emery (category English male radio actors)
£30 was awarded to contestants. Other radio work around this time included several appearances on Workers' Playtime on the BBC, a morale-boosting show that...
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John Watt (broadcaster) (category British radio people stubs)
the BBC's Director of Variety were Workers' Playtime and ITMA. He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 3 December 1956...
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October – The variety programme Workers' Playtime is aired for the last time, on the Light Programme. No events 1 December – Radio Caroline publicity officer...
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while his reputation grew on radio and television. He played his first role on radio in the 1938 BBC tea dance programme Friends to Tea, before spending...
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Harry Worth (actor, born 1917) (section Radio)
Rockefeller and the Red Indians See How They Run Norman, Is That You? Workers Playtime Thirty Minutes Worth Harry Worth in Things Could Be Worse We're in...
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Vickers Wellington LN514 (redirect from Wellington Bomber (TV programme))
location. The workers' scant free time was discussed; they danced and enjoyed radio programs, such as Arthur Askey and Workers' Playtime and It's That...
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Bristol has been the home of radio programmes transmitted throughout the UK and the world via BBC World Service. The BBC Radio & Music Production unit (a...
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co-workers' DNA to create sapient digital clones of them. Acting as the captain of the USS Callister starship, Daly is able to order his co-workers around...
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became popular on regional and then national radio broadcasts, such as Variety Bandbox and Workers' Playtime. Unusually for the time, his humour reflected...
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up British citizenship, and worked on a number of BBC radio programmes, such as Workers' Playtime, Melody Magazine and Forces' All-Star Bill. In 1951,...
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Polka". During World War II, she worked as a radio broadcaster on the BBC lunchtime series Workers' Playtime. In 1957, Manners starred in the last performance...
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List of Viz comic strips (redirect from Playtime Fontayne)
retirement home. He was introduced as the counterpart of Playtime Fontayne, but, unlike Playtime, he has so far only been a one-off strip. Little Plumber...
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into radio in the 1950s as Tommy Trotter in the radio show Welsh Rarebit on BBC Wales. He appeared on the BBC Light Programme's Workers’ Playtime on 47...
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Billy "Uke" Scott (section Radio)
Moss Empires touring circuit, and making his mark on the BBC radio programme Workers' Playtime. He supported Gracie Fields, Will Hay and Tommy Trinder and...
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the early 1950s started working as a producer of radio variety programmes, such as Workers' Playtime, on which he worked with up-and-coming comedians...
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(guitar) he was a regular broadcaster on the touring BBC radio programme Workers' Playtime between 1954 until 1958. From the 1940s Abrams established...
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Tony Hancock (category English male radio actors)
impressions of a “dud” concert party." He took part in radio shows such as Workers' Playtime and Variety Bandbox. In July 1949, he was praised for his...
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