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- ↑ Internet Movie Database. Ros is pronounced "Ross".
- ↑ "Home". rosdrinkwater.com.
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- ↑ Filmography, The Paul Temple Collection (Acorn Media DVD, 2009); Internet Movie Database
- ↑ The Radio Companion, (published by HarperCollins 1991)
- ↑ Francis Matthews interview for The Paul Temple Collection (Acorn Media DVD, 2009)
- ↑ In the dubbed German version of the series, Temple referred to his wife as Stiefelchen (little boot).
- ↑ ‘A fantastic arts journalist. Exceptionally kind. A marvel’: Ros Drinkwater – an appreciation https://www.businesspost.ie/life-arts/a-fantastic-arts-journalist-exceptionally-kind-a-marvel-ros-drinkwater-an-appreciation/
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