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Tony Bagley
Tony Bagley is a British writer. He has written, among other scripts, the radio comedies "The Older Woman", "Married" and "Rubbish". He also wrote for the television series Specials. Degree in economics. Initially worked as a journalist, freelance copy editor and as script reader & editor. His scripts are characterised by surreal concepts, bizarre leaps of logic, dark or ironic fantasy sequences, and literate internal monologues. Commissioned radio plays include ‘Catching Bullets’, ‘Life On A New Planet’, ‘The Machine’, ‘Public Interest’, ‘Prophet’, ‘The Last Cigarette of the War’ and ‘Cold’. Also short stories for radio. Comedy series, ‘The Older Woman’, with Martin Clunes & Zoe Wanamaker, went out on Radio 4 (two series). Another comedy series, ‘Married’, with Hugh Bonneville and Josie Lawrence, again on Radio 4 (three series). Six-part comedy series, ‘Rubbish’, also Radio 4 (two series). Most recent series is ‘Political Animals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married (radio Series)
''Married'' is a BBC radio comedy with science fiction themes, first aired on BBC Radio 4 from March 1999 to October 2001.The main character is Robin Lightfoot, a confirmed bachelor with a successful architectural practice, who wakes up one day in a parallel universe in which he is married with two children. Unfortunately his counterpart in the parallel universe, who has evidently been swapped into our universe, is a cad, a womanizer, a swindler and possibly a murderer. Only the younger of the two children, Ned, believes Robin's story, largely because he reads about parallel universes in comic books. Apart from his previously unknown wife Leslie, and the children Maxine and Ned, Robin finds the new universe populated by people he already knows, but who are different. His former business partner Dirk is still his partner in this universe, but the business is writing greeting card messages, and Dirk, who is married in our universe, is an unmarried sexual addict in the alternat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubbish (radio Series)
''Rubbish'' is a British radio series written by Tony Bagley, who also wrote ''Married''. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2006. A second series began broadcasting on 31 October 2007. Plot summary Martin Christmas (Reece Dinsdale) is a "local government officer" in the Sanitation department, whose days revolve around endless recycling initiatives and whose nights revolve around failed relationships and cynical interior monologues. Much of the program is Martin narrating his life, in between conversations with the various deranged people around him. His boss agonizes over competition with other departments to come top of " greenness" league tables. His smug colleagues constantly swap girlfriends, or as they say, recycle them. Random bursts of insanity break into his world, as with the stranger from another department who accuses Martin of conducting a neo-pagan rite for a woman who had renounced paganism, followed by the pagans in the council attempting to re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Specials (TV Series)
''Specials'' was a 1991 BBC Birmingham series about Special Constables in a fictional Midlands town. Twelve 50- minute episodes were made. The series was shot on videotape at Pebble Mill, Birmingham and using locations around West Bromwich and Birmingham, England. Cast * Brian Gwaspari as Section Officer John Redwood *Martin Cochrane as Special Constable Bob Loach *Ron Donachie as Special Constable Freddy Calder *Cindy O'Callaghan as Special Constable Viv Smith *Kim Vithana as Special Constable Anjail Shah *Lockwood West Harry Lockwood West (28 July 1905 – 28 March 1989) was a British actor. He was the father of actor Timothy West and the grandfather of actor Samuel West. Life and career West was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England in 1905, the son of Mildr ... as George Adams External links * 1990s British crime television series BBC television dramas 1991 British television series debuts 1991 British television series endings 1990s British drama television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Costa Book Awards
The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland. Originally named the Whitbread Book Awards from 1971 to 2005 after its first sponsor, the Whitbread company, then a brewery and owner of restaurant chains, it was renamed when Costa Coffee, then a subsidiary of Whitbread, took over sponsorship. The companion Costa Short Story Award was established in 2012. Costa Coffee was purchased by the Coca-Cola Company in 2018. The awards were abruptly terminated in 2022. The awards were given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. As such, they were considered a more populist literary prize than the Booker Prize, which also limits winners to literature written in the UK and Ireland. Awards were separated into six categories: Biography, Children's Books, First Novel, Novel, Poetry, and Short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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