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 Dirk Maggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2003 and 2004, Maggs produced new episodes of Douglas Adams' science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, adapted from the novels based on the series that Adams wrote after it ended its original run.
His most recent project is directing, adapting and co-producing two brand new series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, who originally chose Maggs for the job in 1993.
The first of these new series, adapted from the novel Life, the Universe and Everything, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, and the latter was a double series adaptation of the final two novels, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish and Mostly Harmless, broadcast in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dirk_Maggs   (331 words)

  
 Lycos - Offers for search bbc news - Compare Cheap Prices and Buy
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of BBC News on television, this is a fascinating series of programmes that look back on the past five decades.
This programme is a compilation of many of the notable news stories over those years, split into five half hour sections, with each section being presented by a major newsreader.
The News Quiz is one of the quirkiest programmes on radio and here Simon Hoggart chooses his most memorable moments from 1996 through to the 2000 London Mayor elections.
shopping.lycos.co.uk /search/bbc_news.html   (891 words)

  
 themutual.net - Where shopping is rewarded
News Quiz 2004, Best Of The (C/D) AUDCD Certificate: 2 Release Date: 01/11/04 Collection of highlights from the comedy news quiz, presented by Simon Hoggart where panellists attempt to answer questions on current affairs in a wise and sometimes witty way.
News Quiz 2004, Best Of The (A/C) AUDCAS Certificate: 2 Release Date: 01/11/04 Collection of highlights from the comedy news quiz, presented by Simon Hoggart where panellists attempt to answer questions on current affairs in a wise and sometimes witty way.
News Quiz 2005, Best Of The (C/D) AUDCD Certificate: 2 Release Date: 03/10/05 A fourth volume of highlights from recent series of The News Quiz, presented by chairman Simon Hoggart.
www.themutual.net /?q=news&start=71   (373 words)

  
 John Lloyd (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He then worked as radio producer at BBC 1974–1978 and created The News Quiz, Quote Unquote, The News Huddlines and To The Manor Born.
He worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979–1989 and created Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image; he also produced the Blackadder series.
His first new TV series for 14 years, QI (short for Quite Interesting, and a pun on IQ), starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies, began on September 11, 2003 at 10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Lloyd_(writer)   (252 words)

  
 Anthropology in the News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
BBC News provides trusted World and ww.bbc news.com UK news as well as bbcnews local and regional perspectives.
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bbc-news.somga.com   (621 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
News articles from the UK and abroad - The Telegraph's online newspaper has the latest UK business news, UK countryside news, UK education news, UK technology news and weather news for the UK.
Clapton, 58, is the "slow hand" of rock, whose forceful guitarwork often resulted in snapped strings, which he would carefully replace on stage to a slow handclap.
There is an OBE too for comic Roy Hudd, whose BBC Radio 2 programme The News Huddlines became something of an institution.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/31/nhon331.xml   (987 words)

  
 News: Writers fears as Huddlines cancelled
Roy Hudd has cancelled the next series of his long-running radio show The News Huddlines after landing a role in Coronation Street.
He told Chortle: "Huddlines is the last remaining BBC radio show that takes a significant number of gags and sketches contributed on an item-by-item basis by non-commissioned writers.
The new series of Huddlines, which uses an average of 35 writers for each programme, had been due to start in March.
www.chortle.co.uk /news/jan02/huddlines.html   (342 words)

  
 Douglas Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A new box set of CDs of all five series, with new archival material, also on CD and exclusive to the box set, was released in October 2005.
The film was released on 28 April in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia, and on 29 April 2005 in the USA.
Upon the mutual discovery that Webb and Simpson were both working on new posthumous biographies, the two authors agreed that the former would focus on Adams's life and personality, and the latter on his work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Adams   (5542 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Debbie Barham
During the next few years she was to write for Spitting Image, the News Quiz, Bob Monkhouse, Graham Norton, Angus Deayton, Rory Bremner and Clive Anderson.
She denied the illness at first, but after her agent, Rachel Swann, failed to recognise her at a recording, Debbie eventually admitted to her that she had a problem.
She is survived by her parents, and half-brother and a half-sister.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/news/obituary/0,12723,945759,00.html   (605 words)

  
 archive news, Jan 2005, at Planet Magrathea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
An exceptionally busy news day is rounded off with the third batch of answers from the movie director and producer, discussing the music, the designs and Zaphod's head(s).
The latest 'news' (as usual, dated a few days before it actually appeared) is a plug and Amazon link for the 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the novel.
Finally, we all know that it is absolutely not a happy new year for a lot of people in Asia and East Africa so if you and your loved ones are healthy, happy and safe, you should show your gratitude by donating something to your local disaster relief charity (in the UK that's www.dec.org.uk).
www.planetmagrathea.com /january05.html   (7516 words)

  
 Carry On News
The new Carry On film has been launched with a reception hosted by the Conservative Party in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Westbrook is being moulded to be the new Barbara Windsor, but the former EastEnder said Windsor was "an icon" and she was not trying to fill her shoes.
News from the Carryoons website, they have added a new character, Carryoon Leslie, which is obviously based on the Leslie Philips' contribution to the early Carryons.
www.whatacarryon.blogspot.com   (2793 words)

  
 The Lady - Interview with June Whitfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Her autobiography - and June Whitfield has become a bestseller and it is this new departure that we are going to discuss in her South London home.
Her contributions to The News Huddlines over the past 16 years have allowed her to display her considerable skills as a mimic - which she describes as "characature".
a new series of Absolutely Fabulous will be screened on BBC 1 and a new series of The News Huddlines will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2.
www.lady.co.uk /articles/0133artA.cfm?framed%3Dy   (1546 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - News Shopper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The awards included an OBE for Clapham comedian and playwright Roy Hudd, famed for his long broadcasting career including the radio show The News Huddlines.
Ms Farrow has taught across the capital for more than 30 years, including schools in Peckham, Putney and Walworth, and is currently the headteacher at Ilford's Loxford School of Science and Technology.
Ms Farrow said: "I was absolutely delighted to learn that I had been nominated, although it was difficult to try and keep such news secret.
www.newsshopper.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=448080   (338 words)

  
 British Society of Comedy Writers - E-Zine
The material, the mood, everything moves on a daily basis, because the news is changing, so the show is changing.
They know Huddlines writers are disciplined, good at working within an established format, good at meeting deadlines and, most important, funny.
If you're planning on a few weeks of listening carefully to get the idea of the show, then after this run of Huddlines (19th April to 21st June), you'll be pleased to know that there is another run later in the year, from 6th September to 8th November.
www.bscw.co.uk /members/ezine/017.htm   (2853 words)

  
 The Sporting News
The Sporting News, Americas oldest sports weekly, provides serious fans with in-depth analytical and historical features for a better understanding of their favorite sports, teams and players.
The Sporting News' golf experts sort through the thousands of players who have played the game, analyzing each facet of the game, from driving to putting.
The sporting news covers them all, each issue is filled with over 100 stories covering baseball, football, hockey and other sports.
www.doubleberger.com /Magazines/IDB3284/The-Sporting-News.htm   (844 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - Comedy - The News Quiz
Go behind the scenes at The News Quiz and find out how they put it together.
During the '70s he wrote for The News Huddlines, The Two Ronnies and Not the Nine O'Clock News before co-creating the award-winning Drop the Dead Donkey.
This Perrier Award-winning comedian is still a regular on the stand-up circuit, but has also found time to present TV and radio programmes such as If I Ruled the World and Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, engage in political activism, write a newspaper column and appear in a film with Burt Reynolds.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/comedy/newsquiz.shtml   (461 words)

  
 Big Finish Doctor Who Audio News
Below are the latest news items and details of the stories that are due to be released in the coming months.
Please note that the release dates and the UK prices quoted may be subject to change and are believed to be accurate at this time.
The news articles, and any related photographs, has been put together with the kind permission of Big Finish Productions.
www.whotopia.keen2host.co.uk /drwho/news/dr_who_news_bfaudios.htm   (2203 words)

  
 The show
Taunted and bullied at school for his mercurial intelligence, prodigious athleticism and long straight pubes, Marc decided to prove that Microsoft Word is mightier than the sword.
He has written for BBC Radio’s Weekending and News Huddlines, The Eleven O'Clock Show, The Sitcom Trials, The Treason Show and was the principal writer of two Edinburgh sketch shows Evolution and Revolution.
Since starting off with 'NewsRevue' he has had over a dozen commissions from the BBC for shows as diverse as 'The News Huddlines', 'The Way It is', 'Deadringers' and 'Russ Abbot' (cut the last one -Ed), not to mention 'Rory Bremner, who Else?' and 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' for Channel 4.
www.newsrevue.com /show/writers.php   (641 words)

  
 Summer Wine - on-line   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Although the BBC may have dismissed Last of the Summer Wine from their top 50, that is not the case with the appreciators of the show.
Disappointing news from our contact at the Beeb - unfortunately the video and DVD release of series 3 and 4 of Last of the Summer Wine has been postponed, probably until early 2004.
New York viewers on a public service networks are just watching the 2000 series which covered the sad death of Compo, actor Bill Owen, who died in July, 1999, aged 85.
www.area5.co.uk /summer-wine/news.htm   (5471 words)

  
 Résumé
Mentored news reporters and photojournalists in the production of news to a high standard of professionalism.
Supervised and edited all news content in the Back Hill Reporter the weekly newspaper of the London College of Printing's School, of Media.
Final year dissertation studied the impact of the Internet on news media.
byronik.com /cv.html   (553 words)

  
 Down the Tubes.net News Archive: May 2005
Asia has taken part in several Hi8us schemes, such as Stripsearch and Developing New Markets (a scheme to help illustrators set up in business), funded by Birmingham City Council's Equal ICI Programme, and believes that it is the support she received during this time that boosted her career.
Publisher Pete Nash broke the news in last week's issue and in a letter to the title's shareholders -- many of them readers who invested in Striker3d last July in a bid to keep the publication afloat.
Talking about the editing of the new album in the latest edition of Dreamwatch magazine, editor Steve White reveals the major problem creating the new Spider album -- and Titan's ongoing Modesty Blaise collections -- was the rareness and fragility of the source material.
www.downthetubes.net /news_archive/2005/05may2005.html   (6821 words)

  
 London Colleges: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Workplaces are now beginning to realise the value of laughter and are sending staff on Stand-up courses to build teams, aid communication skills and combat stress.
The new Comedy Writing course at Kensington and Chelsea College is led by well-known comedian and writer Marc Blake.
Marc, the man with funny bones, appearing regularly on LBC, London Live and Radio 4, as well as having written for Frankie Howerd, Spitting Image and the News Huddlines.
www.londoncolleges.com /printable/news.aspx?id=42   (162 words)

  
 Jacqueline Pirie Chadwick News
Just outside the main village, the Marsdens' neat, new home is in great contrast to that of their neighbours, with the Dingles' pig pens adding to the earthy atmosphere (and smell).
The news that Corrie, the backbone of its evening schedules for four decades, is losing viewers couldn't have come at a worse time.
The news has come as a shock to her parents Tricia and James who live in Birmingham and grandparents James and Muriel who live in Raploch, Stirling.
www.emmerdale.org /emmerdale/jpnews.htm   (16944 words)

  
 news0404
I didn’t know that, but that’s brilliant news,” said the actor, grinning broadly as though he knows something we don’t about the story – which, let’s face it, he does.
News has just reached me that Paul Neil Milne Johnstone, immortalised in the radio series of Hitchhiker’s Guide as ‘the worst poet in the universe’ sadly died earlier this month (from pancreatic failure).
I can exclusively reveal that he is a ‘crazed missionary’ who has travelled to Viltvodle VI, home of the many-armed Jatravartids (a race and planet which are mentioned in the books) and become a passionate convert to their belief in the Great Green Arkleseizure and the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief.
homepage.ntlworld.com /mjs2000/news0404.htm   (2476 words)

  
 Charlie Adams – Comedy Writer
He started on radio on a show called WeekEnding and moved from that to The News Huddlines starring Roy Hudd.
Both shows used material based on the week's news and Charlie quickly became established as one of the best topical one-liner writers around.
It was a short step from that to being invited to write for Bob Hope and Charlie held the job of being the great man's British writer for five years.
www.charlieadams.co.uk /charliewho/index.html   (234 words)

  
 Electric Shadows - Purely Belter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
PURELY BELTER is a new comedy from Mark Herman, director of BRASSED OFF and LITTLE VOICE.
It is set in Newcastle in northern England, and follows a pair of working class lads through the course of a year, in their desperate pursuit of money to buy a season ticket to the football.
His radio comedy show, The News Huddlines, his TV series, and a hit musical, Underneath the Arches (which he wrote as well as starred in), have all been very popular.
www.electricshadows.com.au /film/1963813555   (670 words)

  
 comedy cv - the UK's largest collection of comedians biogs and photos
The second leg of 'DITE' is to tour in autumn 2005, and this will be followed by a new tour and a new show in early 2006.
He has also appeared in Channel 4's short film series 'Natural Born Talent', Radio 4's drama 'All Fingers and Thumbs' and was a staff writer for 'The News Huddlines' on BBC Radio 2.
Since going out on tour, Steve has attracted a massive amount of national TV interest and is currently in the process of writing his own sitcom.
www.comedycv.co.uk /steveday/index.htm   (489 words)

  
 Judi Herman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
She was Performing Arts Lecturer at Westminster University until she left in 1990 to develop her own theatre company, Continental Brechtfest, and its unique series of topical comedy breakfast shows.
She has devised and written for all Continental Brechtfest shows, both in London and on the Edinburgh Fringe, directed most of them and appeared in some of them.
Although she now concentrates on a broadcasting career, she is still in demand as writer of lyrics.
www.londonis.com /judi_herman.html   (543 words)

  
 WELCOME TO TERRY ADLAM'S HOME PAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
No, I've written for The News Huddlines on Radio 2 as well as ads and two documentaries for local radio.
Well over the last couple of months my short comedy play called ZOO won the Actxfive competition at the Windsor Arts Centre and my Short story 'Meticlously Planned' came first in the Slough Writers Group's short story competition...which was nice.
Currently I'm working on a new sitcom based on ZOO and also halfway through a book on a particular style of film comedy.
www.terryadlam.co.uk   (303 words)

  
 Newsrevue crews
Undaunted, he formed HMS Comedy in 1998 and has since written for NewsRevue, a Tango commercial, News Huddlines and The Treason Show, and is about to have a sitcom screened on ITV’s The Sitcom Trials.
Since hearing that her daughter is appearing in NewsRevue, Claire's Mum commented that "it's such a shame all the current news seems to be about imminent war and celebrity paedophiles, as people won't really want to see sketches about that, will they?" Bless.
Elizabeth’s most recent job as a pantomime fairy and kids TV presenter on Milkshake did not prepare her for the onslaught of NewsRevue.
www.newsrevue.com /past/showrun.php?year=03&run=1   (535 words)

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