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	Take It From Here - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and starred Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols.
		Through TIFH Muir and Norden reinvented British post-war radio comedy ;— amongst other influences, it was one of the first shows with a significant segment consisting of parody of film and book styles, later used extensively in programmes such as Round the Horne and many television programmes.
		Frank Muir had been writing material for Jimmy Edwards's appearances at The Windmill Club, and later wrote material for Edwards's radio character, a seedy public school headmaster; Denis Norden had been staff comedy sketch writer with the Kavanagh agency, and had written material for the Australian comedian Dick Bentley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Take_It_From_Here (1408 words)

	Frank Muir
		Frank Muir (5 February, 1920-2 January, 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality.
		Born and brought up in Kent, Frank Muir joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and became a photographic technician, being posted to Iceland.
		Frank Muir was also a contestant on the My Word spinoff My Music (as was Norden).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Frank_Muir (363 words)

	Frank Muir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frank Muir (5 February 1920 - 2 January 1998) was an English comedy writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur.
		Frank Muir joined the Royal Air Force during World War II and became a photographic technician, being posted to Iceland.
		In the 1960s Frank Muir was Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the BBC and in 1969 joined London Weekend Television as Head of Enter tainment.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Muir (501 words)

	OFF THE TELLY: Light Entertainment/The Glory Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Muir obviously did and recalls the outline prepared by Russian screenwriter Alexei Kapler with great fondness: "The action was set in one of those tiny ancient wooden houses which still crouch, gently falling apart, at the foot of Moscow's concrete high-rise offices and vast ministerial blocks.
		Frank Muir: "On Monday 5 September 1969, the available unit heads in the building, Doreen Stephens, Terry Hughes, Humphrey Burton, Derek Granger and I, were summoned to an urgent meeting at 6 pm that evening at our chairman Aidan Crawley's fine home in Chester Row.
		Muir and his team were not alone in believing that the Board had made a major mistake.
	www.offthetelly.co.uk /lightentertainment/glorygame/prologue2.htm (4443 words)

	Muir Family of Kirkcudbrightshire and Nova Scotia
		Mr Muir served in the British fleet under Lord Nelson in 1805 at the battle of Trafalgar, and we believe he was the last survivor in Halifax of that memorable engagement." At the time of this engagement Andrew would have been 21.
		Muir, in the early nineties, withdrew from his old firm and engaged in the flour and meal business, in which, up to the present time, asociated with his son [Andrew], he had met with success.
		Muir was one of those who signed the original roll calling a meeting to organise the Scottish Rifle Company, November 1859" and note that his name is also included in the "Original Roll of the Scottish Volunteer Rifle Company" signed on January 13, 1860.
	home.earthlink.net /~douglasjgraham/Muir.htm (4544 words)

	Frank Muir
		Frank was in the middle of his story and he had to come up with alternative uses for padded bras.
		Muir attended Leyton County High School, in east London, but had to leave when he was 14 because his father died and his mother could no longer afford to pay the £11 a term for him.
		Frank Muir and Denis Norden were friends, partners and co-writers for 50 years.
	www.magicdragon.com /FrankMuir.html (2789 words)

	Frank Helling - Live Presentations - John Muir Exhibit (John Muir Education Project, Sierra Club California)
		Frank Helling adopted John Muir as his "Zorba" about twenty years ago and brings the great mountaineer to life in his performance "A Visit with John Muir - The Scootcher of a Lifetime." Frank has performed for schools, universities, environmental and civic groups, in the national Parks and for special events throughout California.
		Frank presently teaches fourth grade for the Chawanakee School District, and incorporates environmental education into all areas of the curriculum.
		Born in 1838 in Dunbar, Scotland, young John Muir's first "scootchers" were climbing castle walls and exploring the moors and the wild shores of the North Sea.
	www.sierraclub.org /john_muir_exhibit/live_presentations/helling.html (605 words)

	University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Frank Muir & Dennis Norden Archive
		Denis Norden (b.1922) and Frank Muir (1920–98) did not meet until 1947 but were already on a parallel course as both served in the RAF during the Second World War and both spent their free time writing comedy material to amuse fellow servicemen.
		The Archive represents all phases of Muir and Norden’s work, from their first major success, Take it from Here, which won the hearts of the British listening public in the late 1940s and 1950s, to their enduring characters The Glums, who made the transition to television in the late 1970s.
		Muir and Norden were in constant demand for three decades; their partnership only began to wind down when Muir took a full-time executive role with BBC Light Entertainment.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /library/speccoll/collection_descriptions/muirnorden.html (473 words)

	Muir Woods National Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Muir Woods National Monument is one of the busiest National Parks in the country.
		Muir Woods National Monument is also in the process of studying the transportation needs of the southern and western Marin County recreation areas.
		Muir Woods National Monument does not have a street address of the type used by search engines such as mapquest and yahoo maps.
	www.nps.gov /muwo/directions (1269 words)

	DENIS NORDEN
		Denis Norden and Frank Muir met in 1947, at a time when Muir was providing material for an ex-airman named Jimmy Edwards and when Denis was working with a client called Dick Bentley.
		More often when Frank Muir, who was writing his autobiography (A Kentish Lad), had been regularly fact-checking with his old partner about so many events which they shared.
		Frank lifted BBC Light Entertainment comedy shows and made them pre-eminent, then he went on to become one of the founders of London Weekend Television.
	www.magicdragon.com /Norden.html (1917 words)

	Telegraph 15/06/67
		They are Frank Muir, assistant Head of Light Entertainment, Doreen Stephens, Head of Family Programmes, and Humphrey Burton, Head of Music.
		Frank Muir's contract runs until November, but he will be leaving the TV Centre tomorrow at the end of a period when he has done a great deal to make the BBC's comedy programmes among the most popular of the week.
		Then Frank Muir, Doreen Stephens, Humphrey Burton, Denis Norden, Aubrey Singer, Donald Baverstock, Michael Peacock, Chief Engineer Bill Fletcher, Wynford Vaughan Thomas and scores of other talented BBC men and women began leaping across the frontier.
	www.transdiffusion.org /pmc/newspapers/franchise68/london/dt670615.htm (627 words)

	Muir Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		In case you don' t know, Frank is a professional fighter, and we aren't talking about that sissy...
	frank.myenfo.net /directory/Muir-Frank.html (310 words)

	Frank Muir, 'the complete man of comedy', dies at 77
		FRANK Muir died peacefully in bed yesterday after a family Christmas at home
		The 77-year-old comedy writer and broadcaster was remembered by his close friend Denis Norden as "a complete man of comedy" whose humour was based on kindliness.
		She said: "He had been tired, but Frank had a good Christmas with his family.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/01/03/nmuir03.html (280 words)

	Anecdotage.com - people Muir anecdote. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One windy day in 2003, Fergus Muir recorded a hole in one on the par-3 fifth hol...
		During his stint in the army, Frank Muir met a number of acquired a number of st...
		John Muir once declared that he was better off than the magnate E. Harriman.
	www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?category=people&who=Muir (72 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Comedy writer Frank Muir dead at 77 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Muir, probably best known for his role in the TV word game Call My Bluff, died in bed at his home near Egham, Surrey, on Friday, only three months after publishing his much-acclaimed memoirs, A Kentish Lad.
		Despite his plummy voice, Muir, born in Ramsgate, Kent, in 1920, was not university educated and in fact left school without a single qualification.
		Muir, who leaves a son, James, and a daughter, Sally, once noted his hobbies as "collecting books and staring into space".
	212.58.240.133 /1/hi/uk/44182.stm (442 words)

	Take it From Here
		In 1947, Frank Muir was writing for Joy Nichols and Jimmy Edwards, while Denis Norden was writing material for Dick Bentley.
		During the break, Denis and Frank found another cast member, Wallas Eaton, to be the "odd-voice character".
		Frank was especially pleased with these sketches because they credited the audience with a degree of intelligence.
	www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /radio/tifh.htm (695 words)

	Denis Norden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Aside from this success, he has had a long and distinguished career as a writer and radio and TV personality, partnered by Frank Muir.
		Born in London, Norden began by managing a theatre and organising variety shows.
		Their first joint venture was the radio show, Take It From Here, and they went on to write many successful radio and television scripts.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Denis_Norden (292 words)

	Boston.com / Business / Idaho potato growers unite on prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		While the commission is not involved in market pricing, he called the relative unity among growers a major development, one that could make this attempt to control prices more successful than all those of the past.
		Muir said the price targets have to be reasonable and it appears from the initial recommendation last week that the growers are not trying "to make up three bad years in one year."
		Clen Atchley, who grows nearly 1,000 acres of potatoes along wheat, canola seed and hay for his cattle near Ashton, is an independent operator who didn't get involved in the cooperative right away.
	www.boston.com /business/articles/2004/11/10/idaho_potato_growers_unite_on_prices (714 words)

	GOGA/MUWO - Muir Beach Overlook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Muir Beach Overlook is a small place full of scenic beauty and history.
		The base end stations found at Muir Beach Overlook were an important part of the coastal defenses for the San Francisco Bay Area.
		Muir Beach Overlook has several picnic tables, outhouses, a paved parking area, and several trails onto the rocky outcroppings.
	www.nps.gov /muwo/mube/muir_overlook.htm (321 words)

	Encyclopedia: Frank Muir
		In later years, whenever his dignified speech patterns caused listeners to assume that he had received a public-school education, Muir would demur: "I was educated in E.10, not Eton." Kent is a county in England, south-east of London.
		My Music was a radio panel show which premiered on the BBC Home Service on January 3, 1967.
		Whack-O was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frank-Muir (1273 words)

	TAKE IT FROM HERE
		Edwards' regular spot, a sort of light hearted lecture, was written by Frank Muir, and a guest on one show, Dick Bentley (incidentally another Australian) performed material penned by Denis Norden.
		The theme and credits were not sacred either and Muir and Norden saw to it that they were equally as comical as the show itself and twisted the normal announcements to suit their needs.
		This name is the result of the middle names of each of Muir and Norden and was used when either or both actually contributed lines to the show.
	www.britishcomedy.org.uk /comedy/tifh.htm (2061 words)

	Powell's Books - The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose by Frank Muir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Focusing primarily on the 19th and 20th century, but with material dating back to Columbus, this volume is packed with an amazing range of comic material — from the gentle, charming comedy of manners, to biting satire, to outrageous parody.
		Muir has gathered work from over two hundred writers and from every English-speaking country.
		In this collection, Frank Muir guides the reader on a journey through five centuries of humorous prose in the English language.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0192803794-2 (339 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Kentish Lad, A
		In his autobiography, Frank Muir recalls a happy 1920s childhood in the seaside town of Ramsgate, where he was born, in Broadstairs and in London.
		He recalls his time as an air photographer in the RAF and the beginnings of his career as a scriptwriter and performer.
		For more than 25 years Frank Muir, in partnership with Denis Norden, produced comedy for radio and television.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books?whatfor=0552141372 (195 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose: From William Caxton to P.G.Wodehouse - A Conducted Tour (Oxford ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As tour leader, there could be no one better than Frank Muir to entertain, inform, and above all amuse the reader in his own inimitable style.
		Frank Muir guides the reader through five centuries of humorous prose in the English language.
		Frank Muir has chosen the extracts very carefully, and he guides you through the story behind each author and extract in a very informative way.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192829599 (607 words)

	Oxford University Press
		In this magisterial collection, Frank Muir guides the reader on a journey of discovery and delight through five centuries of humorous prose in the English language.
		Starting in London with William Caxton and a Preface written and printed in 1477, and ending with P. Wodehouse whose last novel was published in 1977, the route is meandering: from England to Ireland and Scotland, back to England again, on to America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
		As tour leader of this enjoyable enterprise, there could be no one better than Frank Muir to entertain, inform, and above all amuse the reader in his own distinctive fashion.
	www.oup.com /ca/isbn/0-19-280379-4 (283 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Utterly Ultimate "My Word!" Collection (A Methuen Humour Classic) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The stories which Frank Muir and Denis Norden have been telling for many years on the "My Word!" radio programme, offering complicated explanations for simple and well-known phrases, could be said to have created new literary genre.
		And what you had when Norden or Muir were done was something familiar that can never again be looked upon in quite the same way.
		While part of the fun is determining how Muir or Norden is going to arrive at the punned phrase at the end, comic joys abound within each of the pieces.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0413564207 (693 words)

	My Word!
		The series was created by Edward J Mason and Tony Shryane and performed by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
		The four permanent team members are E. Arnot Robertson, film critic and writer; Nancy Spain, journalist; and Frank Muir and Denis Norden, scriptwriters of sound radio's Take It From Here and television's Whacko.
		He is always convinced that he has exhausted the supply, but when pressed for the next script he succeeds in discovering fresh brain-teasers to delight both team and audience.
	www.whirligig-tv.co.uk /radio/myword.htm (1054 words)

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