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- ↑ The Inferno Show presents Machiavelli The Prince of Comedy
- ↑ From Ithaca With Love The Odyssey
- ↑ Mike, Davies (8 June 2008). "Simon Woods and the birth of Brummiewood". Birmingham Post . Retrieved 3 September 2011.
- ↑ Simon Woods: Denmark shows BBC that local investment is possible - Birmingham Post, 28 November 2013