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A Look Back At The Nineties
''A Look Back At The Nineties'' was a British comedy radio series first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. Presented by Brian Perkins, the 5 episodes were a spoof look back at the years 1995 to 1999 from the standpoint of New Year's Eve 1999. Each 30 minute episode covered one year. The writers were Mark Burton, John O'Farrell and Pete Sinclair, who also appeared performing various impersonations. Other appearances included Rory Bremner, Steve Coogan, Jack Dee, Chris Barrie, Kate Robbins and Griff Rhys Jones Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith. Rhys Jones came to national attention in the 1980s for h .... The programme won several awards including the Sony Gold for comedy. A second series was broadcast in 1994 under the title ''A Look Back At The Future'', looking back at the years 2001, 2005, 2010, 2021, 2025 and 2099 from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya. Broadcasting throughout the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and on BBC Sounds, it can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, northern France and Northern Europe. It is available on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media. Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after Radio 2. BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as ''Today'' and ''The World at One'', heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, LW, and MW; there is a delay on digital radio of three to five seconds and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Perkins
Brian Perkins (born 11 September 1943 in Wanganui, New Zealand) is a former senior newsreader on BBC Radio 4. Career He first started working in 1962 in Christchurch on radio stations of the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS), and its successor, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC). He worked on 3YA, 3YC and sometimes on 3ZB, and in those days all the work was continuity functions. When he came to Wellington at the end of 1962 he started reading the news both on television and on radio. The NZBC introduced him to many forms of radio including compiling programmes, commentary and other functions. In 1965 he moved to London, and obtained a role announcing and newsreading for the BBC. A keen musician, he began by learning the cello and changed to a double bass. While in London he attended the Guildhall School of Music. In 1969 he went back to New Zealand to play the double bass with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Nine years later he returned to Britain to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Burton (writer)
Mark Burton (born 23 September 1960) is a British television writer, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and film director. Television and radio career After turning up at BBC Radio's Light Entertainment Department, Burton teamed up with John O'Farrell and the two were commissioned for ''Week Ending'' by Harry Thompson (who later named his two pet rats Burton and O'Farrell). The pair won the BBC Light Entertainment Contract Award, and went on to write or contribute to a number of radio series, including ''Little Blighty on the Down'', ''McKay the New'' and with Pete Sinclair, the multi-award-winning ''A Look Back at the Nineties'' and ''Look Back at the Future'' in which Burton also performed. "RadioHaHa". Burton also created the BBC Radio 4 panel game ''We've Been Here Before'' p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Farrell (author)
John O'Farrell (born 27 March 1962) is a British author, scriptwriter, and political campaigner. Previously a lead writer for such shows as ''Spitting Image'' and '' Have I Got News for You'', he is now best known as a comic author for such books such as ''The Man Who Forgot His Wife'' and ''An Utterly Impartial History of Britain''. He is one of a small number of British writers to have achieved best-seller status with both fiction and nonfiction."May Contain Nuts" interview ''BooksatTransworld.co.uk'' He has also published three collections of his weekly column for ''The Guardian'' and set up Britain's first daily satirical news website NewsBiscuit. Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Sinclair (writer)
Pete Sinclair is a writer who has worked on British television and radio series such as ''All Along the Watchtower'', '' Have I Got News for You'', ''Lead Balloon'', and ''Spitting Image''. Much of his writing has been in the genres of comedy and political satire. He created the ITV sitcom '' Bad Move'' with Jack Dee in 2017. Credits Television * '' Bad Move'' (2017) * ''Power Monkeys'' (2016) * '' Have I Got News for You'' (2016) * ''Ballot Monkeys'' (2015) * ''Newzoids'' (2015) * '' Alexander Armstrong's Big Ask'' (2013) * ''Lead Balloon'' (2006) * ''The Mark Steel Lectures'' (2006) * '' Mike Bassett: Manager'' (2005) * '' My Hero'' (2003) * '' Mr Charity'' (2001) * '' You Only Live Once'' (2000) * ''All Along the Watchtower'' (1999) * ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' (1996) * ''Room 101'' (1994) * ''Clive Anderson Talks Back'' (1989) * ''The Rory Bremner Show'' (1988) * ''Spitting Image'' (1987) * ''Carrott Confidential'' (1987) * '' Now, Something Else'' (1986) Radio * '' Loo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rory Bremner
Roderick Keith Ogilvy "Rory" Bremner,"Rory Bremner". '' Who Do You Think You Are?''. Wall to Wall for BBC One. 2 February 2009. No. 1, series 6. (born 6 April 1961) is a Scottish impressionist and comedian, noted for his work in political satire and impressions of British public figures. He is also known for his work on ''Mock the Week'' as a panellist (for Series 1 and 2), ''Rory Bremner...Who Else?'', and sketch comedy series ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''. Early life Bremner was born in Edinburgh, the son of Major Donald Stuart Ogilvy Bremner (1907–1979) and his second wife Ann Simpson (1922–2001). He has an older brother and an older half-sister (from his father's first marriage). Bremner was educated at Clifton Hall School and Wellington College, and then studied Modern Languages at King's College London, graduating with a degree in French and German in 1984. In 2009, Bremner was the subject of the series '' Who Do You Think You Are?'' in a quest to research about his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Coogan
Stephen John Coogan (; born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. He is most known for creating original characters such as Alan Partridge, a socially inept and politically incorrect media personality, which he developed while working with Armando Iannucci on '' On the Hour'' and ''The Day Today''. Partridge has featured in several television series and the 2013 film '' Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa''. In 1999, he co-founded the production company Baby Cow Productions with Henry Normal. He began his career in the 1980s as a voice actor on the satirical puppet show ''Spitting Image'' and providing voice-overs for television advertisements. Coogan grew in prominence in the film industry in 2002, after starring in ''The Parole Officer'' and '' 24 Hour Party People''. He continued to appear in films such as ''Around the World in 80 Days'' (2004), ''Hamlet 2'' (2008), ''Tropic Thunder'' (2008), ''The Other Guys'' (2010), ''Ruby Sparks'' (2012), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Dee
James Andrew Innes Dee (born 24 September 1961), known professionally as Jack Dee, is an English stand-up comedian, actor, presenter and writer known for his sarcasm, irony and deadpan humour. He wrote and starred in the sitcom ''Lead Balloon'' and hosts the panel show ''I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue''. His UK television appearances include being a team captain on '' Shooting Stars'' and hosting '' Jack Dee: Live at the Apollo'', which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2006. He also presented ''The Jack Dee Show'', ''Jack Dee's Saturday Night'' and ''Jack Dee's Happy Hour''. He won '' Celebrity Big Brother 1'' in 2001. Early life and education Jack Dee was the youngest of three children born to Rosemary ( Stamper) and Geoffrey Dee, after Joanna Innes Dee and David Simon Innes Dee. He was born in the Municipal Borough of Bromley, Kent (now within the London Borough of Bromley) and grew up in Petts Wood [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Barrie
Chris Barrie (born Christopher Jonathan Brown, 28 March 1960) is a British actor, comedian, and impressionist. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show ''Spitting Image'' (1984–1996) and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001) and '' Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'' (2003). Barrie is most renowned for starring as Arnold Rimmer in 13 seasons of the sci-fi space comedy ''Red Dwarf'' between (1988–2020), and as Gordon Brittas in 7 seasons of the BBC leisure centre sitcom ''The Brittas Empire'' (1991–1997), Early life and career Barrie was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, to a father who was serving in the British Army, and attended Methodist College Belfast boarding school in Northern Ireland. After dropping out of his Combined Studies course at Brighton Polytechnic, he became a grave filler. He then began his television career as a sports personality impersonator on '' The David Essex Showcase'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Robbins
Kate Elizabeth Robbins (born 21 August 1958) is an English actress, singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in the early 1980s when she scored a top ten single on the UK Official Charts with "More Than in Love", while she was appearing in the television soap opera ''Crossroads''. She went on to become a prolific voice actress, most notably for nine years with the satirical show ''Spitting Image''. Early life Robbins is the older sister of fellow actress Amy Robbins, sculptor Jane Robbins, and '' The Sheilas'' singer Emma Robbins. Her older brother is radio broadcaster and actor Ted Robbins. Through her sister Emma she was the sister-in-law of Simon Shelton and through her sister Amy she is the sister-in-law of actor Robert Daws. Her father was Mike Robbins, who grew up in Hightown, Wrexham, the son of Ted, who served as the secretary of the Football Association of Wales for more than 35 years. She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls in Bebington, Cheshire. Robbins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griff Rhys Jones
Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith. Rhys Jones came to national attention in the 1980s for his work in the BBC television Sketch comedy, comedy sketch shows ''Not the Nine O'Clock News'' and ''Alas Smith and Jones''. From 2008 to 2016, he presented the television bloopers show ''It'll be Alright on the Night'' for ITV (TV network), ITV, having replaced Denis Norden, and being succeeded in 2018 by David Walliams. Early life and education Griffith Rhys Jones was born on 16 November 1953 in Cardiff, the son of Gwynneth Margaret (née Jones) and Elwyn Rhys Jones, a medical doctor. His family moved due to his father's occupation to West Sussex when Rhys Jones was six months old.Matthew Stadle"Griff Rhys Jones: 'I’m greedy for life – I do too many things'" ''The Daily Telegraph'', 3 November 2014. Rhys Jones attended Conifer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Radio Academy Awards
The Radio Academy Awards, started in 1983, were the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. For most of their existence, they were run by ZAFER Associates, but in latter years were brought under the control of The Radio Academy. The awards were generally referred to by the name of their first sponsor, Sony, as The Sony Awards, The Sony Radio Awards or variations. In August 2013, Sony announced the end of its sponsorship agreement with The Radio Academy after 32 years. Consequently, the awards were named simply ''The Radio Academy Awards''. In November 2014, it was announced that The Radio Academy would not be holding the awards in 2015, and would be looking for other ways to recognise achievement in the future. The awards were relaunched in 2016 as the Audio & Radio Industry Awards (ARIAS). Awards format The awards were organised into various categories, with nominees being announced a few weeks before the main awards ceremony. The categories varied slight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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