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Arthur Askey
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(1900–82)
Tiny bespectacled entertainer (1.6m/5ft3in), who after years of concert parties and after-dinner entertaining sprang to fame in 1938 in the BBC radio show Band Waggon with Richard Murdoch. Known as 'big-hearted Arthur', he later had a successful career in films and musicals.
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