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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Fanny Cradock. Christmas. They go together like mushrooms and turkeys. Mincemeat and omelettes. Choux buns and goo. But where can you find all her Fanny-tastic recipes? She rattles through them on screen so quickly, moving on to the next even before poor old Sara has a chance to whip away the still-needed spatulas… After all, Fanny tells us that there is no need to worry, it's all in the booklet after all. 'It's all in the booklet!' has become the catchphrase and social media hashtag most associated with the annual screenings of the classic Fanny Cradock series, Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas. Fans worldwide excitedly share their squeals of delight as Christmastime approaches. Stocks of green food-colouring diminish on the supermarket shelves. Hardware stores have an unexpected rush on those normally hard-to-sell garden secateurs. Trembling hands reach into wardrobes up and down the land to grab tightly onto the pink chiffon lurking within… but who has the elusive copies of the booklet? Now, you really can join in. Watch the shows. Read all about the dishes. Plan the party. Raise your drawn-on eyebrows to the roof. Wrinkle your nose to the imaginary audience through the pretend camera lens. It's All in the Booklet - Festive Fun with Fanny, which has so much in it this year it's really like a small book, provides a humorous romp-a-long with the Christmas classics, helping households to host their own Fanny Cradock-inspired Christmas soirées. Bringing Retro Back. For everyone. With pictures from Fanny's original 1970s photographer, Kevin Geddes, author of Keep Calm and Fanny On! The Many Careers of Fanny Cradock, guides us all through each episode to ensure we have the skills and knowledge to make a Fanny feast for your family, friends, or indeed for those nasty neighbours you never liked very much.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Born in Southend on Sea in 1915, Peggy Mount rose from humble beginnings to become one of Britain's best-known and best-loved actresses. After achieving overnight stardom in the smash-hit play Sailor, Beware!, Peggy's talent and unmistakable voice would secure her a place in entertainment history as the ultimate "battle-axe" on stage and in a succession of television series including The Larkins, George and the Dragon and You're Only Young Twice. From critically acclaimed performances with the RSC to annual pantomime appearances, Peggy Mount's career spanned more than fifty years and indomitably she remained a working actress into her eighties. In the first ever biography of Peggy Mount's life, Andrew Ross charts the story of an intensely private lady who consistently shunned the spotlight and rarely gave interviews. She once famously said "I'm not a bit like my screen image" yet the real-life Peggy was a fascinating and curious mixture of both the formidable and the insecure. From her difficult childhood, troubled family life and fifty-year feud with her only sister to her dramatic rise to fame, Peggy's life and career are revealed to discover the homely yet complex lady behind the often fearsome on-screen image. Drawing on exclusive first-hand accounts, including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Derek Jacobi and the late Pat Coombs, this is the story of a unique and pioneering actress and her exceptional career.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The actress Jacqueline Pearce is best known to television audiences as the villainous Servalan from the fondly remembered Blake's Seven (BBC 1978-1981). But her career has taken her from RADA to Hollywood, via starring roles in international comedy films, Hammer Horror, BBC Shakespeare, and London's West End. So how did she end up living in the African bush with her belongings in black bin-bags? Find out with this gripping memoir of an extraordinary life - from Byfleet to the Bush. Jacqueline's motherless upbringing in suburban Byfleet was unconventional and her education at the hands of nuns left her emotionally scarred. Through the course of her erratic career, she found love, laughter, heartache, breakdowns, fame, obscurity, and sex drugs and rock and roll. On the way, she encountered such stars as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Sammy Davis Jr, Jerry Lewis, Alan Bates, John Hurt, Dervla Kirwan and Rupert Penry-Jones. Candid, vivid, mordant and funny, this is an unusual and enchanting memoir. Includes a bonus interview recorded at Valiant 3, March 2012.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Born in Birmingham in 1929, Jacqueline Hill lost her parents in early childhood and spent her adolescence working in a factory. Then, in the post-war years, a scholarship to RADA helped her escape to a new life in London - and she never looked back. Jacqueline is best known for her performance as Barbara Wright, one of the very first Doctor Who companions. But her career on the small screen began a decade earlier, in the days following the landmark Coronation TV broadcast of 1953. Her appearance on a BBC talent show that summer brought her overnight success, although it soon became clear just how easily that might slip away. During the ten years that followed, Jacqueline quietly established herself as a leading actress of skill and sensitivity alongside the likes of Sam Wanamaker, Sean Connery, and Maggie Smith. By the time she led viewers into the TARDIS for the first time, she was a seasoned professional, familiar with every aspect of a rapidly changing industry. Jacqueline's story, told here with the help of new research and interviews, is one of the resilience and determination in both her private life and her career. It offers a snapshot of television history, and shows for the first time how her early experiences prepared her to take on the role she played so memorably in Doctor Who.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Pat Coombs was the unsung heroine of British comedy. With her distinctive looks and incredible array of funny voices she was instantly recognisable. A favourite 'foil' to many of Britain's top entertainers, including Bob Monkhouse, Ted Ray and Dick Emery, her career spanned more than fifty years. A true Cockney, born within the sound of Bow Bells, Pat was a star on radio from the 1950s and went on to become a much-loved face on television with appearances in countless series, ranging from Beggar My Neighbour and Don't Drink the Water to You're Only Young Twice and EastEnders. Interspersed with a string of small screen hits were roles in the Carry On films and numerous appearances in television adverts and quiz shows (including Celebrity Squares and Blankety Blank) all of which made her a firm fixture in British entertainment. In this unashamedly affectionate biography, Andrew Ross draws upon Pat's personal archive, as well as memories from family and colleagues and his own five-year friendship with 'Patty', to chart her life and remarkable career. "There can't be anyone with anything bad to say about her," said one of Pat's friends. Indeed few actresses have been so loved, not only for their talent as a performer but also for the sweetness of their real-life personality. From her earliest days in wartime London to the final years of her life (when she stoically battled ill-health to continue working), this authorised biography is a tribute to an unforgettable lady who touched the lives of many generations.…

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Audio Book (CD). Zustand: New. Considered by many to be the foremost author of the traditional Ghost Story, M. R. James was a distinguished scholar who spent his entire adult life in the academic atmospheres of Eton and Cambridge. His classic supernatural tales draw on the trepidations of the everyday, in which documents and objects unleash ghastly forces, often in enclosed confinements and night-time settings where the imagination runs riot. From isolated country houses to remote inns, ancient churches and vast libraries. These locations deliver intolerable menace from malevolent spirits seeking vengeance and harm. 80 years on, these stories have lost none of their power to unnerve and disturb. This new volume includes four tales which have been adapted for television, expertly narrated by actor David Troughton and includes: Number 13, The Tractate Middoth, A View from a Hill and Lost Hearts.…

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Zustand: Very Good. 2022. First Edition. 227 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Pictorial paper covered boards with lettering. Contains black and white plates. Signed by the author with dedication to Steve on title page. Pages and plates are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Lettering is clear. …

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Early retirement! She had said it with a nervous chuckle. Or was it a witch's cackle? After twenty-six years as a security officer with Watson-Mycroft, Victor Meldrew was on the last leg of life, with nothing to do but confront the insanities and frustrations of everyday existence. To his dying day he would not understand why he'd found a python with rigor mortis in his flight bag on the plane to Athens. It was one of those events over which he had no control: like the Citroen 2CV in his rubbish skip; the dead tomcat in his freezer, and the charred remains of an elderly neighbour that turned up one morning on his kitchen table. And yet, bizarre as they were, such problems paled into insignificance beside his colourful experiences with two hundred garden gnomes, a naked woman in the local community centre, a toe-curling rectal examination at Luton Airport, and a remarkable orgy of sex and drugs involving two dozen old age pensioners and a lovesick gorilla on Christmas Eve. These encounters - and much more mayhem besides - add up to a dossier of disasters that are no more or less than an average year for a man with One Foot in the Grave.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Mention the name 'Fanny Cradock' to anyone, young or old, and they tend to simply snigger, make an innuendo-heavy reference to doughnuts or squirm at the thought of long-forgotten meals disguised under layer-upon-layer of ever-increasingly bizarre food-colourings and flourishes of garnish. She is, at least, remembered. She was hard to forget. Her legacy collapsed faster than you could say 'freshly baked soufflé' when she died twenty-five years ago. It became popular to talk her down; laughing at her appearance captured as if in aspic on YouTube, discussing the 'shocking' way she treated her assistants and husband-come-sidekick, Johnnie, repeating rumours that she 'couldn't cook anyway', was rude to everyone she ever met and spent her days swanning around her kitchen in elaborate ball-gowns barking orders as she went… However, there is much more to Fanny Cradock than even the most elaborately pencilled-in eyebrow might suggest. The 'real' story is just as weird, wonderful and wacky as the myths that persist… Fanny Cradock had many careers; she was the mistress of reinvention before Madonna had even considered it. She was an entrepreneur, business-woman, activist, journalist, food critic, travel guru, food demonstrator, fiction writer, children's author, cookbook creator, media personality and, as she is most remembered, a television cook - the first 'celebrity chef'. Fanny deliberately created the over-the-top persona which catapulted her into the living rooms of millions of British viewers in the 1950s, riding high as the 'television celebrity chef' until the 1970s, enabling her to remain in the hearts and minds of the public to this day. Keep Calm and Fanny On - The Many Careers of Fanny Cradock takes an amusing, entertaining and lively look at her life and work. Expertly and meticulously researched in her own archives and others, through speaking to those who knew her best - friends, family, colleagues, and those fortunate enough to experience her charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent over the decades. With a Foreword from Nicholas Parsons and contributions from her assistants and family members as well Dame Esther Rantzen, Gyles Brandreth, Sir David Attenborough, Nick Owen, Prue Leith, Diana Henry and Evangeline Evans, Keep Calm and Fanny On - The Many Careers of Fanny Cradock re-draws, re-evaluates and re-tells the remarkable story of Fanny Cradock.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Six hit pilot scripts plus the one that got away, from the keyboard of LAURENCE MARKS and MAURICE GRAN. Holding the Fort Shine On Harvey Moon The New Statesman Birds of a Feather Love Hurts Goodnight Sweetheart and Lady Ottoline Pierpoint's Guide to Intimate Behaviour for Gentlewomen Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran always wanted to be television comedy writers. perhaps because they grew up during what they consider to be the golden age of situation comedy. They spent much of the 1970s failing to sell any of their first four sit-com attempts. Then in 1979 they managed to penetrate the office of Humphrey Barclay, the head of comedy at London Weekend Television. Amazingly, he liked their fifth sit-com idea enough to commission the script that became Holding the Fort, the first pilot in this book. Between that day in spring 1979, and summer 1993, Marks and Gran went on to create a dozen original television comedies, winning two British Academy awards and an International Emmy. Shooting the Pilot features the original pilot scripts of six of their most successful series. From Holding the Fort to Goodnight Sweetheart. Within Shooting the Pilot you will encounter such well-loved TV characters as Gary Sparrow, Alan B'Stard MP, Harvey Moon, and of course Sharon, Tracey and Dorien, the original Essex girls. Each script is preceded by an illuminating essay recounting how the show was developed and cast and the impact our chosen actors had on the scripts, and vice-versa. As a bonus, you also have the chance to read the pilot that was never produced, Lady Ottoline Pierpoint's Guide to Intimate Behaviour for Gentlewomen, and so learn something about the changing face of television. Shooting the Pilot is a book for lovers of television comedy, as well as for would-be comedy writers, who will all be fascinated as Marks and Gran reveal some, if not all, of the tricks of their trade.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Kit Pedler was a man of ideas, both scientific and fictional. He brought his thoughts on the future of science alive to millions of television viewers as prescient drama. As a writer, he will forever be associated with creating the Cybermen with Gerry Davis for Doctor Who. The ultimate in human upgrade; they were less fearful from being a monster, but as a potential echo of our future. He also devised the process of regenerating one Time Lord into another incarnation, thus succeeding in securing the continuation of Doctor Who to the present day. He became a household name when he co-created Doomwatch, the BBC serial starring Robert Powell. It thrilled audiences and speculated on the dangers of runaway science and the impact it could have on humanity. In the 1970s, he turned away from the conventional path of a career scientist and embraced the new movement of alternative technology, becoming a public advocate of living modern life in a way which would impact less harmfully on the planet. In this revised edition of Cyberman - The Quest for Pedler, Michael Seely traces the path of Kit's life, and with help from his friends, family and colleagues, explores the many fascinating ideas and campaigns that Kit Pedler took to his heart.…

Audio Book (CD). Zustand: New. Audiobook of Joan Sims biography by Andrew Ross 3 CDS Direct from publisher Immortalised through her roles in twenty-four of the iconic Carry On films, Joan Sims remains one of Britain's best-known comedy legends. For five decades - through more than seventy film appearances and work on stage, television and radio - she captured the hearts of audiences around the world. Yet behind the laughter was heartache and personal torment as the incredibly private actress battled depression, insecurity, loneliness and alcoholism. In this authorised biography of Joan, Andrew Ross details her early years on stage and rise to stardom in theatre revue, her failed romances and the intense bond with her parents which ultimately led to the collapse of her one serious love affair. Revealed is the truth about Joan's relationships with her Carry On co-stars (including Kenneth Williams who bizarrely proposed to her), the drink problem which forced her to spend time in a grim Victorian mental institute in the early 1980s and the circumstances behind her reclusive final years and last months in hospital before her death in 2001. With a cast of characters, ranging from Sidney James and Kenneth Williams to Laurence Olivier and Katharine Hepburn, Joan's story, from a solitary and lonely childhood in 1930s Essex, to her status as a national treasure in the 1990s, is one of professional success over personal heartache achieved through immense determination. Drawing on first-hand accounts from Joan's closest surviving friends and contemporaries including Barbara Windsor, Fenella Fielding, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Tom Courtenay, as well as exclusive material from her personal archive, what emerges is the story of a much-loved lady who battled private demons to become one of the finest and best-loved actresses of her generation.…

Audio Book (CD). Zustand: New. From light musical comedy to a succession of mean crooks and bullying sergeant-majors, William Hartnell's long and varied career included a number of iconic British films including Carry On Sergeant, This Sporting Life and Brighton Rock. However, it is for his role as a time-travelling eccentric that he is most fondly remembered. Hartnell played the very first Doctor from 1963 - 1966, pitting his wits again many foes and monsters including the Daleks and the Cybermen, laying the foundations for what was to become a global institution. Jessica Carney's closely researched biography of her grandfather includes stories from many of the hundreds of stars of stage and screen with whom he worked, among them Richard Attenborough, Verity Lambert, Bob Monkhouse, Carole Ann Ford, David Langton and Lindsay Anderson. Updated and available for the first time in over fifteen years, Jessica Carney's biography is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the character that made him immortal - Doctor Who.…

Audio Book (CD). Zustand: New. During the decade that spanned the 1970's, teddy-boy draped rock & roll band SHOWADDYWADDY had a run of chart success unparalled by any other artist or band. In 2005 they were still touring, but by then the heady days of teeny-bop hysteria were long gone. Offered a summer run of 33 holiday camp dates, the band took the fast buck and subsequently entered into uncharted territory. From experiencing 'life in the fast lane,' they were about to undergo 'a breakdown on the hard-shoulder.' In this bitter-sweet account Lead Singer (and later manager) Dave Bartram candidly recollects the extraordinary occurrences of 10 weeks in the UK's bucket & spade resorts, which strained every emotion to breaking point! Includes bonus interview.…

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Direct from publisher Julian Glover CBE has enjoyed a career which has spanned decades on both stage and screen. Whether that is as part of international franchises such as Star Wars, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and Doctor Who, or prestigious stage work including many seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, he has entertained millions of fans all over the world. Cue to Cue to is a celebration of this remarkable career. Told in Julian's own words, and illustrated with a plethora of rare images, this book tells the personal story behind the 'episodes' seen by audiences, and the behind-the-scenes tales of some of the most successful shows of all time.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. How were they to know when they bought the little ruin in deepest France with the sweet name "Valentin" painted across its crumbling façade, that this purchase would be their salvation? She was a well-known actress, he a respected television and theatre director, both leaving behind all that they knew to begin a great, unscripted adventure together in a new country. Immigrating to rural France, they opened a very theatrical, British guest house, where all human life was welcomed. With a colourful cast of characters, the story of their life in France is in part bizarre, hilarious, shocking and sometimes tragic, but always fascinating.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. In the 1970s, actor Barry Evans was at the very top of his profession. After his breakthrough role in the hit film Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush in 1968, he became a regular feature on the nation's television screens, starring in the hugely successful sitcoms Doctor In The House, Doctor At Large, and Mind Your Language. However, Barry's fame masked a private life plagued with insecurities and depression. His success as an actor could not be sustained in the years that followed and the newspapers that once feted his name would only mention him again when, at the age of 53, his cold and lifeless body was discovered in his small bungalow in a quiet Leicestershire village, a whisky bottle and a quantity of pills close by. With over sixty exclusive interviews with his friends, colleagues, and co-stars, and access to previously unseen documents, the incredible story of Barry Evans is told for the first time in Daniel Ward's revealing biography, portraying a complex yet sensitive man who rose from being abandoned as a child to grace stages in the West End and on Broadway, star in hit films and television series, and earn international fame before his fall into obscurity and a tragic death shrouded in mystery.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. It is 1923 and the BBC is at war! Theatre managers have banned their stars from broadcasting on the new-fangled wireless, fearing audiences will prefer to stay at home and listen to all their favourite celebrities for the price of a radio licence. The only solution is for the BBC to nurture its own talent. Which is how a bespectacled office clerk, moonlighting under the assumed name of John Henry, quickly becomes a nationwide comedy sensation. Standing alone in a bare studio, his mournful Yorkshire tones cause hilarity across the land. He instantly grasps the potential of radio, painting his surreal misadventures directly onto the canvas of the listener's imagination. John Henry was radio's first megastar. The first BBC comedian to perform topical comedy. The first to have his own comic strip. The first to broadcast live from an aeroplane. And when wife Blossom joined the act, the rudimentary sitcom was born. They even made silent movies about listening to the radio! But his fame soon began to fade. And when the press revealed his complicated secret life (and secret wives), John Henry's misfortunes abruptly ceased to be funny. Alan Stafford has exhaustively researched the fascinating life of this overlooked comedy innovator. The jokes, the sketches, the successes and failures of an absurdist comedian who entertained millions in their own homes. When radio was new, John Henry was right at the heart of it - the first true pioneer of BBC comedy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 'You won't do any good until you're 40,' was the advice given to a young Frank Thornton by farceur Robertson Hare. That prediction came true when Frank joined Michael Bentine's It's A Square World in 1961, and by the time Are You Being Served? propelled Frank to stardom in 1972 he was considered a veteran of stage and screen. When the curtain came down on his career in 2012, he had become one of the most recognisable actors in Britain. All this despite shying away from fame, preferring to work in the shadows of such comedy giants as Tony Hancock, Harry Worth, Tommy Cooper, Benny Hill, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett and Morecambe and Wise. In To Be Frank… Brian Slade tells the full story of Frank Thornton's career, with access to family archives and Frank's own journals and letters. From his early days performing Shakespeare with Donald Wolfit to his lengthy stay in Last of the Summer Wine, via the RAF, a career-threatening speech impediment and the worldwide popularity of Captain Peacock - all with his beloved wife Beryl by his side. With contributions from his daughter, Jane, and friends and colleagues including Alan Titchmarsh MBE, Julian Clary, Noel Edmonds, Gyles Brandreth, Richard Bentine and David MacGillivray, To Be Frank… shines the spotlight on a man too humble to crave stardom, but who became one of the most famous faces on British television.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 'I was born in Edinburgh in 1978 at the age of forty.' Thus begins film critic Mansel Stimpson's memoir describing the impact upon his life of a single pivotal moment - his late but positive and totally unexpected realisation that he was gay. Written some thirty years ago but only published now for the first time, the story gains from the fact that so much of it - everything that followed on from the author's recognition of his sexuality - was recorded as it was happening. His first tentative forays into the world of gay dating, his developing sex life and the search for long-term fulfilment are set against his growing involvement in organisations such as the Campaign for Homosexual Equality and the emotional impact of deciding when and how to come out to friends and colleagues. Although a personal tale, this is also a portrait of an era, sharing what it meant to be gay in the late 1970s and early 1980s when attitudes to homosexuality were gradually changing.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. It is 1988 and Kenneth Williams - comic actor, author and raconteur - is at the end of his tether. Persistent illness, a flagging career, and disintegrating relationships; all have combined to bring about a deep melancholy and a lonely despair. Shadows are encroaching and the curtain is beginning to fall. In reality, it was indeed the end of the road for this icon of British entertainment. But what if things had worked out differently? What if this legend of stage, radio and screen hadn't succumbed to the misery and suffering, and actually managed to find a way back? What if the great Kenneth Williams had lived on?… BEYOND OUR KENNETH is an imagined continuation of the acclaimed star's notorious diary - a fictional, five-year extension, where we find the king of campery enduring in an alternate London of the early nineties. Follow the master of the acidic put-down, the prince of pithy retorts, as he navigates unfamiliar waters with a cast of cohorts, both familiar and new. Listen in to more private musings from one of the country's favourite personalities… there'll be candour, cattiness - and plenty of carrying on.…