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- ↑ Ms Susan Jane Belbin company-director-check.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
- ↑ "BBC Radio Solent Special – Producer/Director Susan Belbin remembers One Foot in the Grave – BBC Sounds".
- ↑ "BBC Radio Solent Special – Producer/Director Susan Belbin remembers One Foot in the Grave – BBC Sounds".
- ↑ Webber 2006 , p. 177
- ↑ Webber 2006 , p. 178
Bibliography
- Webber, Richard (2006). The Complete One Foot in the Grave. London: Orion.
