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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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That Was The Week That Was
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(BBC 1962–3) Television's first satire show, popularly known as TW3 and produced late on Saturday nights by Ned Sherrin. It introduced a tone of irreverent informality, new then on television, with revue sketches and songs performed live by a regular team including Millicent Martin and William Rushton; there were impromptu cartoons drawn on camera by the brilliant Timothy Birdsall, who tragically died just after the run of the show; there were provocative monologues delivered from a high stool by Bernard Levin, who was on one occasion assaulted by a member of the audience; and the central figure and linkman was David Frost. Many of the same team returned for similar follow-on series, Not so Much a Programme, More a Way of Life and BBC3.
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