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- ↑ Arena: Meet the Dead Ringers. BBC Four, 1 October 2007.
- ↑ New Statesman – Volume 139- Page 13 2010 "Mark Perry, star of the TV and radio series Dead Ringers, was offered a slice of Ashcroft's zillions to impersonate the dour Broon. David Cameron never tires of telling us how he deplores Labour's negative campaigning but it's a safe bet that "
- 1 2 PERRY, Mark (né Philip Perry), Debrett's People of Today, November 2007.
