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Victoria Wood, was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she performed on the piano. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to quintessentially "British" activities, attitudes and products. She was noted for her skills in observing culture and in satirising social classes.
BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archived repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcaster of the BBC's spoken-word archive, and as a result the majority of its programming originates from that archive. It also broadcasts extended and companion programmes to those broadcast on sister station BBC Radio 4, and provides a "catch-up" service for certain Radio 4 programmes.
What The Papers Say was a British radio, and formerly television, series. It consisted of quotations from headlines and comment pages in the previous week's newspapers, read in a variety of voices and accents by actors. The quotes were linked by a script read by a studio presenter, usually a prominent journalist. The show did not have a regular host, and was intended as a wry look at how British broadsheets and tabloids covered the week's news stories. The programme was most recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Alan Graham Carr is an English comedian and television personality.
Ruth Alexandra Elisabeth Jones, is a Welsh television actress, novelist and screenwriter. She co-starred in and co-wrote the award-winning British comedy Gavin & Stacey and has appeared in many television comedies and dramas, such as Jimmy McGovern’s The Street with Timothy Spall (2009), and starring as Hattie Jacques in Hattie for BBC Four.
Julie Wilson Nimmo is a Scottish actress and dancer. She is best known for playing the role of Miss Hoolie in the BBC One, BBC Two, and CBeebies children's programme Balamory. She is also known for playing Carlotta in Beautiful Burnout (2012) and she also played Ms. Greer in Still Game.
Andrew William Agnew is a Scottish actor. He is best known for playing the role of PC Plum in the BAFTA award-winning CBeebies programme Balamory.
Balamory is a British live action children's television series on British television, about a fictional small island community called Balamory in Scotland. It was produced between 02 September 2002 and 14 April 2005 by Balamory Ltd.
Season Two was broadcast on 7th April 2003.
Miles Hugh Barrett Jupp is an English comedian and actor. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian, before playing the role of the inventor Archie in the British children's television series Balamory. He has also appeared on comedy panel shows, played John Duggan in The Thick of It and Nigel in the sitcom Rev.
Play School is a British children's television series produced by the BBC which ran from 21 April 1964 until 11 March 1988, with repeats shown until 14 October 1988. It was created by Joy Whitby and was aimed at preschool children. Each programme followed a broad theme and consisted of songs, stories and activities with presenters in the studio, along with a short film introduced through either the square, round or arched window in the set.
Samantha Seager is a British actress born in Atherton, Greater Manchester, England who played the role of Jodie Morton in the soap opera Coronation Street.
In television and radio programming, a serial has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the full run of the series, which distinguishes them from traditional episodic television that relies on more stand-alone episodes. Worldwide, the soap opera is the most prominent form of serial dramatic programming.
Mary Riggans was a Scottish actress, best known for playing Effie in Take the High Road and Susie Sweet in Balamory. She began her acting career in 1946, when she did a voiceover at the age of 10, and went on to star in television, radio and theatre productions.
Tony Roche is an English television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best known as a writer of the HBO comedy Veep, the BBC Television series The Thick of It and its film spin-off In the Loop.
Rodd Christensen is an American actor best known for portraying the role of Spencer the painter on the BBC children's television programme Balamory. He was the only non British actor on the show.
Buki Akib is a British actress and fashion designer. Trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, she was known for her portrayal of Josie Jump in the popular British television children's programme Balamory until 2004, when she was replaced by Kasia Haddad.
