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Cecil Blacker
General (United Kingdom), General Sir Cecil Hugh Blacker (4 June 1916 – 18 October 2002) was a senior British Army officer and a former Adjutant-General to the Forces. Military career Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, Wellington College and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Cecil Blacker was Officer (armed forces), commissioned into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in January 1936.Debrett's People of Today 1994 He was adjutant of the regiment during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940, in the opening months of the World War II, Second World War.Obituary: General Sir Cecil Blacker The Times, 23 October 2002 He later transferred to the 23rd Hussars which then formed part of the 11th Armoured Division (United Kingdom), 11th Armoured Division. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Dark (TV Series)
''After Dark'' was a British late-night live television discussion programme that was broadcast weekly on Channel 4 between 1987 and 1991, and which returned for specials between 1993 and 1997. It was later revived by the BBC for a single series, broadcast on BBC Four in 2003. Roly Keating of the BBC described it as "one of the great television talk formats of all time". In 2010 the television trade magazine ''Broadcast (magazine), Broadcast'' wrote "''After Dark'' defined the first 10 years of Channel 4, just as ''Big Brother (British TV series), Big Brother'' did for the second" and in 2018 the programme was cited in an editorial in ''The Times'' as an example of high-quality television. Broadcast live and with no scheduled end time, the series, inspired by an Austrian programme called ''Club 2'', was considered to be a groundbreaking reinvention of the discussion programme format. The programme was hosted by a variety of presenters, and each episode had around half a do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
