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Paul Watson (documentary Filmmaker)
Paul Watson (17 February 1942 – 18 November 2023) was a British television documentary filmmaker. Biography Watson was born on 17 February 1942 in Paddington, London, England, and grew up in Wood Green. Family moved to Bolton in Lancashire after his father obtained work in the textile mills. Attended Altrincham Grammar School, Cheshire. Attained A Level Art aged 16. Watson attended Manchester Regional College of Art, then the Royal College of Art in London, from 1963 to 1966. He started working for the BBC in the mid-1960s, his first job being as a researcher on '' Whicker's World''. He was given his own documentary series, ''A Year in the Life'', followed by singles for the ''Tuesday's Documentary'' strand. Watson attempted to make his drama feature debut as writer and director with ''A Fine and Private Place'' but the film was abandoned during production. In 1974, Watson made ''The Family'', one of his most well-known programmes. In the following decade, he worked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddington
Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel opened in 1847. It is also the site of St Mary's Hospital and the former Paddington Green Police Station. Paddington Waterside aims to regenerate former railway and canal land. Districts within Paddington are Maida Vale, Westbourne and Bayswater including Lancaster Gate. History The earliest extant references to ''Padington'' (or "Padintun", as in the ''Saxon Chartularies'', 959), historically a part of Middlesex, appear in the documentation of purported tenth-century land grants to the monks of Westminster by Edgar the Peaceful as confirmed by Archbishop Dunstan. However, the documents' provenance is much later and likely to have been forged after the 1066 Norman Conquest. There is no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Family (1974 UK TV Series)
A family is a domestic or social group. Family or The Family may also refer to: Mathematics * Family of curves, a set of curves resulting from a function with variable parameters *Family of sets, a collection of sets *Indexed family, a family where each element can be given an index *Normal family, a collection of continuous functions *Parametric family, a family where elements are specified by a set of parameters Religion *Holy Family of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph *Family International, a religious movement formerly called the Children of God * The Family (Australian New Age group), a controversial Australian religious group * The Family (Christian political organization), or The Fellowship, a Washington, D.C.–based American Christian group *" The Family: A Proclamation to the World", a 1995 statement issued by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Science *Family (biology), a level of scientific classification for organisms * Family (peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notting Hill Carnival
The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean Carnival event that has taken place in London since 1966"About us" , Notting Hill Carnival '13, London Notting Hill Enterprises Trust. on the streets of the Notting Hill area of Kensington, London, Kensington, over the August Bank Holiday weekend. It is led by members of the British African-Caribbean people, British Caribbean community, and attracts around two million people annually, making it one of the world's largest street festivals, and a significant event in British African-Caribbean people, British African Caribbean and British Indo-Caribbean people, British Indo-Caribbean culture. In 2006, the UK public voted it onto a list of icons of England. Carnival traditionally commences on the Saturday with ''Panorama'', a competition between stee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Williams
Hugo Williams (born Hugh Anthony Mordaunt Vyner Williams on 20 February 1942) is an English poet, journalist and travel writer. He received the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1999 and Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2004. Family and early life Williams was born in 1942 in Windsor, Berkshire. He was the eldest child of the actor and playwright Hugh Williams and his second wife, the model, actress and playwright Margaret Vyner. His brother is the actor Simon Williams. His sister Polly, an actress, died of cancer in 2004 at the age of 54. Hugh Williams enjoyed success as an actor during the 1930s, but his career waned following his service in the Second World War, during which he sustained injuries. He declared bankruptcy in the early 1950s but the family's fortunes revived when he and his wife began collaborating as playwrights. They found success with the comedy ''The Grass is Greener'' which was first staged in London's West End in 1956. Hugo Williams attended Lockers Park Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Healey
Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey (30 August 1917 – 3 October 2015) was a British Labour Party politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979 and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970; he remains the longest-serving Defence Secretary to date. He was a Member of Parliament from 1952 to 1992, and was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983. To the public at large, Healey became well known for his bushy eyebrows, his avuncular manner and his creative turns of phrase. Healey attended the University of Oxford and served as a Major in the Second World War. He was later an agent for the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the Foreign Office dedicated to spreading anti-communist propaganda during the early Cold War. Healey was first elected to Parliament in a by-election in 1952 for the seat of Leeds South East. He moved to the seat of Leeds East at the 1955 election, which he represented until his retireme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ), ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other languages'' is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area with its surrounding municipalities has a population of 592,714 people. Located within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans, a region of Southeastern Europe. Sarajevo is the political, financial, social, and cultural centre of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a prominent centre of culture in the Balkans. It exerts region-wide influence in entertainment, media, fashion, and the arts. Due to its long history of religious and cultural diversity, Sarajevo is sometimes called the "Jerusalem of Europe" or "Jerusalem of the Balkans". It is one of a few major Europea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvania Waters (TV Series)
''Sylvania Waters'' was an Australian reality television series that followed the lives of an Australian family – one of the first such programs in Australia. It premiered on Australian television in 1992 and was co-produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The show documented the lives of Noeline Baker and Laurie Donaher of 48 Macintyre Crescent in the Sydney waterside suburb of Sylvania Waters, New South Wales, Sylvania Waters over a six-month period, emphasising the couple's nouveau riche, newfound wealth and luxurious lifestyle as well as interpersonal conflicts. Cast *Noeline Baker, mother of Paul, Joanne and Michael *Laurie Donaher, Noeline's partner of 13 years, father of Mick and Stephen *Paul Baker, Noeline's eldest son from a previous relationship, who doesn't get along with Laurie *Dione Baker, Paul's pregnant girlfriend, who gives birth to his son, Kane and who he later marries *Michael Baker, Noeline's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Pod Raceway
Santa Pod Raceway is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue for and racing. Located in Podington, Bedfordshire, England, the drag strip was built on a disused World War II, Second World War Royal Air Force (RAF) airbase, known as RAF Podington; once used by the USAAF's 92nd Operations Group#World War II, 92nd Bomb Group. The drag racing venue opened at Easter in 1966, and it is now the home of European drag racing and hosts both the first and last round of the FIA and Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM / Union Européenne de Motocyclisme, UEM European Drag Racing Championship, along with the British National Drag Racing Championships. It has also been the venue for the annual Bug Jam weekend since 1987. History Podington airfield, near the villages of Hinwick and Podington, was formerly a World War II, Second World War airbase. In 1966, permission was obtained to use the airfield as a drag racing complex, the main runway being used as the drag strip. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barney Curley
Bernard Joseph Curley (5 October 1939 – 23 May 2021) was a racehorse trainer, gambler and founder of the Zambian charity DAFA from Northern Ireland Biography Bernard Joseph (Barney) Curley was born one of six children to Kathleen and Charlie Curley. He attended Mungret College with the intent of becoming a Jesuit priest, but several years into his training contracted TB and was hospitalised for nine months. He then owned a bookmaker's shop in Belfast (which went bust) and a pub before going into music management, serving as manager of the act Frankie McBride and the Polka Dots who had a hit on the British singles chart with the song ''Five Little Fingers''.? However he decided on a career in thoroughbred horse racing. As a trainer he had stables in County Westmeath and later in the Newmarket area between 1985 and 2012. Curley was known as a shrewd operator and was suspected of running "coups" against Irish bookmakers. In particular (and his most successful) the 1975 Ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellie Laine
Ellie Laine is a comedian best known for her sexually explicit stand-up comedy and her appearances on panel shows in the 1980s. In the 1980s, Laine performed sexually explicit stand-up comedy in working men's clubs while wearing suggestive clothing, discussing sex in "graphic and earthy detail". In popular culture *Laine made one appearance on '' A Question of Entertainment'', two episodes of '' Celebrity Squares'', and three episodes of ''Blankety Blank ''Blankety Blank'' is a British comedy game show which first aired in 1979. The show is based on the American game show ''Match Game'', with contestants trying to match answers given by celebrity panellists to fill-in-the-blank questions. The ...''. *She also made an appearance in one volume of '' Penthouse'' magazine. *One episode of John McCririck's ''Morning Line'' involved her divulging to the viewers that the most interesting thing in McCririck's trousers was its label, and her insistence that McCririck prove otherwis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wallwork (surgeon)
John Wallwork CBE FRCS FMedSci (born July 1946), is a retired cardiothoracic surgeon and emeritus professor who performed Europe's first successful combined heart-lung transplant in 1984, and in 1986 performed the world's first heart-lung and liver transplant with Sir Roy Calne. He attended Accrington Grammar School. In 2014, he became Chairman of Royal Papworth Hospital. He was President of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 1994–1995. Wallwork is a Distinguished Supporter of Humanists UK Humanists UK, known from 1967 until May 2017 as the British Humanist Association (BHA), is a charitable organisation which promotes secular humanism and aims to represent Irreligion in the United Kingdom, non-religious people in the UK throug .... References Living people 1946 births British cardiac surgeons British thoracic surgeons British transplant surgeons Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Academy of Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Virginia as part of the Southern United States while the Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies the state as a part of the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regionMid-Atlantic Home : Mid-Atlantic Information Office: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics" www.bls.gov. Archived. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 12th-least populous state, with a population of 1,769,979 residents. The capital and List of municipalities in West Virginia, most populou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
