* 1951 – British radio comedy programme The Goon Show was broadcast on BBC for the first time.

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Le Mesurier undertook a number of roles on television in 1951, including in six episodes of the BBC children's programme Whirligig ; the role of Doctor Forrest in The Railway Children ; the role of Sir Alexander Blythe in children's comedy-thriller Show Me a Spy ; the part of the blackmailer Eduardo Lucas in Sherlock Holmes: The Second Stain, opposite Alan Wheatley's Holmes ; and Joseph in the nativity play A Time to be Born.

Other post war productions included a live performance of Richard II, directed by Royston Morley and starring Alan Wheatley as Richard and Clement McCallin as Bolingbroke ( 1950 ); a made-for-TV production of Henry V, directed by Royston Morley and Leonard Brett, and starring Clement McCallin as Henry and Marius Goring as the Chorus ( 1951 ); a Sunday Night Theatre made-for-TV production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Desmond Davis, and starring Stanley Baker as Petruchio and Margaret Johnston as Katherina ( 1952 ); a television adaptation of John Barton's Elizabethan Theatre Company production of Henry V, starring Colin George as Henry and Toby Robertson as the Chorus ( 1953 ); a live performance of Lionel Harris ' production of The Comedy of Errors starring David Pool as Antipholus of Ephesus and Paul Hansard as Antipholus of Syracuse ( 1954 ); and The Life of Henry the Fifth, the inaugural programme of BBC's new World Theatre series, directed by Peter Dews and starring John Neville as Henry and Bernard Hepton as the Chorus.

In 1951 the party issued a programme called The British Road to Socialism ( officially adopted at the 22nd Congress in April 1952 ), which explicitly advocated the possibility of a peaceful reformist transition to socialism – but only after it had been personally approved by Stalin himself.

In 1950 and 1951, Greenstreet played Nero Wolfe on the NBC radio programme The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe, based loosely on the rotund detective genius created by Rex Stout.

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Crosland was himself an active member of the Fabian Society, contributing to the New Fabian Essays, which saw the emerging generation of Labour thinkers and politicians attempt to set out a new programme for Labour following the Attlee governments of 1945 to 1951.

The " British Road to Socialism ", as it was then known was first published in February 1951 as the programme of the Communist Party of Great Britain ( CPGB ) and has gone through several revisions since then, most recently in 2000, bringing the document into its seventh edition.

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The Adventures of Harry Lime ( broadcast in the United States as The Lives of Harry Lime ) was an old-time radio programme produced in London, England during the 1951 to 1952 season.

When he ran out of money in 1951, he moved to Sydney and spent the next 2 years there as art critic for the Daily Telegraph ( 1952-54 ), arts compere called Phidias for the ABC children ’ s radio programme, The Argonauts and as a drawing teacher at the National Art School ( 1956-62 ).

The whole standardisation programme was launched with the building of the 7MT Britannia design in 1951 ; in the event, the 5MT proposal was dropped in favour of an updated version of the highly successful Stanier mixed traffic 4-6-0.

Stu Francis ( born 1951, Bolton, Lancashire, England ) is a British comedian with a camp style of delivery who achieved celebrity as lead presenter on the children's television programme Crackerjack ( 1979 – 1984 ), on which his catchphrase was " Ooh!

Many popular figures have appeared on the programme more than once: the record for appearances is held by Tony Benn, who first appeared as a panel member in March 1951 and has contributed to over 80 programmes.

In 1951, he became scientific head of the programme that eventually led to the development of nuclear arms, and is often known as the father of the French A-Bomb and H-bomb.

With its training syllabus based on the UK Sea Cadet Corps programme, the corps soon expanded to include five more school units and two open units by 1951.

There were also various comedy sketches – Tony Hancock had his first regular television role on the programme, appearing for four episodes in 1951.

( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.

In 1951 the pool's operation was transferred to the newly-created Department of Administration, an agency established as the central staff and auxiliary department of the state government.

In 1951, this was reaffirmed by Cudkowicz.

The technique of cutting sections was essentially the same as that described by Coons et al ( 1951 ).

Volume 1, containing Parts 1 and 2 was published in 1951 ; ;

The volume was completed in 1950 and published in 1951.

Volume 1 ( ( Af ) of the seventh edition of Dana's System Of Mineralogy was published in 1944 and Volume 2 ( ( Af ) in 1951 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, N. Y..

`` In 1951 she was a prostitute in New York County.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

Karpov was born on May 23, 1951 at Zlatoust in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union, and learned to play chess at the age of four.

August Horch ( 12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951 ) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant which would eventually become Audi.

On April 11, 1951, the missing stone was found lying on the site of the Abbey's altar.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan, was assassinated by Saad Akbar, a lone assassin, in 1951.

It was followed in 1951 by the less successful Gold Rush story Paint Your Wagon.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

A European-African advisory council was formed in 1951, and the 1961 constitution established a consultative legislative council.

This rule was removed in 1951.

Another general election was called in 1951, and the Liberals were left with just six MPs in parliament ; all but one of them were aided by the fact that the Conservatives refrained from fielding candidates in those constituencies.

The first new brewery was opened in Newark, New Jersey in 1951, and was the first of nine to open over the course of the next 25 years.

A refined version was proposed by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey in 1951.

The Brabham team was founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in their native Australia.

By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson ( on washtub bass ) and Jody Williams ( whom he had taught to play the guitar ).