The TV show was written and produced by largely the same team as had worked on Radio Active, and Angus Deayton, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Michael Fenton Stevens, Geoffrey Perkins and Phillip Pope again comprised the main cast.

John is married to the actress Helen Atkinson-Wood who, on first hearing People Like Us on the radio, rang the BBC in praise of the programme and was given Morton's phone number.

In 1982 Tarrant, Carolgees, Gorman, Randolph Sutherland and Henry hosted a late-night show-with the up and coming comics Alexei Sayle and Helen Atkinson-Wood called O. T. T.

As well as Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson in their usual roles, this series starred Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent, and Helen Atkinson-Wood as Mrs. Miggins.

Helen Atkinson-Wood ( born 14 March 1955 ) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire.

Atkinson-Wood studied fine art at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, where she performed with Rowan Atkinson.

Craig Ferguson wrote in his book American on Purpose that he and Helen Atkinson-Wood were in a romantic relationship that lasted five years.

The show starred, among others, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Michael Fenton Stevens, Helen Atkinson-Wood and Philip Pope.

* a 6-episode serial on BBC Radio 4 ( 23 Nov .-28 Dec. 1992 ) dramatised by Michael Butt and starring John Wood ( Vimes ), Melvyn Hayes ( Nobby ), Robert Gwilym ( Carrot ), Crawford Logan ( Vetinari ), Helen Atkinson-Wood ( Lady Ramkin ), Brett Usher ( Supreme Grand Master ), Martin Jarvis ( narrator ).

Ferguson made his starring television debut in The Craig Ferguson Show, a one-off comedy pilot for Granada Television, which co-starred Paul Whitehouse and Helen Atkinson-Wood.

Tracy phones a morning television phone-in show ( hosted by Michael Thomas and Helen Atkinson-Wood, with appearances by Rachael Fielding and Jonathan Barlow ), and when she realises that the show's divorce expert is hiding in her bathroom she takes on his role ( with a heavy Northern accent, actually a slightly exaggerated version of Bennett's own voice ) to give herself advice on the other line.

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

The doctor, since Scotty was no longer allowed to make his regular trips into town to see him, came often and informally to the house.

He again stated that he was `` a regular minister '' ; ;

I point now with pride to the fact that, long ere the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Minute Women, the Economic Council and other such notable `` watchdog '' organizations were so much as heard of, I was Hollywood's leading bulwark against communism, fighting single-handedly `` creeping socialism '' against such insuperable odds as the Fascio-Communist troops of the NRA, PWA, WPA, CCC and an army of more than twenty-two million mercenaries whom F.D.R. employed secretly, through the transparent ruse of regular `` relief '' checks.

It was possible to maintain aerobic conditions in the pond by regular additions of sodium nitrate until the temperature decreased and the algae population changed from blue-green to green algae.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.

We all painted in our spare time, and we had all started as easel painters with scholarships, but he was the only one of us who made any regular money at it.

Bobbie had been head of the alloy division, while John was just another good salesman in the regular branch.

It was thought wiser to keep them segregated from the patients in the regular charity ward.

A Modest Proposal is the name of The University of Texas at Dallas ' Alternative Student Newspaper, the monthly opinion paper of the University ; it was also the name of a regular column in SWIFT Magazine of Harvard University, a satire publication that also takes its name from Jonathan Swift.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

Like many regular army officers from the South he was opposed to secession, but resigned his commission soon after he heard of the secession of his adopted state Texas.

The first regular auto racing venue was Nice, France, run in late March, 1897, as a " Speed Week.

He received a brevet promotion to lieutenant colonel in the regular army for his actions at Antietam and was promoted in March 1863 to major general of volunteers, to rank from November 29, 1862.

He was wounded in the neck on the second day of Gettysburg and received a brevet promotion to colonel in the regular army for his service.

During the Carolingian epoch the custom grew up of granting these as regular heritable fiefs or benefices, and by the 10th century, before the great Cluniac reform, the system was firmly established.

Behind the revolving lineup and the regular sidemen, the true core of the Project was the duo of Parsons and Woolfson.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

The empire was bound together by roads, along which there was a regular postal service.

The novel was not only the presenter of the new, secular, rationalistic, private world of the middle class.

Edward Vincent " Ed " Sullivan ( September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974 ) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of the TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.

* Justin Ryan-interior decorator and television presenter, although born in Glasgow, was brought up in Fort William.

Chapman was also to have played a guest role as a television presenter in the Red Dwarf episode " Timeslides ", but died before filming was to have started.

He also appeared in musicals and, in his later years, was a prominent presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs.

Bonewits was a regular presenter at Neopagan conferences and festivals all over the US.

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE ( 30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004 ), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist.

Kabaddi was axed in 1992, but not before its presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy suffered a collapsed lung while participating in the sport.

In 1969-70 he was presenter of The Golden Silents on BBC TV, which attempted authentic showings of silent films, without the commentaries with which they were usually shown on television before then.

Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget, a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, starring Dana Delany, which depicts a young woman fatally affected by scleroderma ; the film was based on the experiences of Saget's sister Gay.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

A group of four suited men — a presenter ( Georges Corse, Minister of Information ) and three contributors to the system's development — was shown standing in a studio.

Strachan had solo releases since 1976 and finally left the band in 1978 and was also a radio and television presenter.

Lipscomb, along with several other Nobel laureates, was a regular presenter at the annual Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony, last doing so on September 30, 2010.

The event caused some controversy, as the record label's embargo date was broken, although Williams himself later backed the presenter for doing so.

Barry Took ( 19 June 1928 – 31 March 2002 ) was an English comedian, writer and television presenter.

* Comedian and presenter Griff Rhys Jones appeared as himself in July 2004, when he was drafted into Lynda's campaign to restore the Cat and Fiddle pub.

He is a qualified medical doctor, and was co-writer ( with Bill Oddie ) of several episodes of the medical comedy Doctor in the House on ITV ( appearing in the episode " Doctor on the Box " as a television presenter ).

In 1972 he starred in the children's educational programme Sam on Boffs ' Island and was later a presenter on Play Away.

During the awards ceremony, the film was eventually announced by presenter Will Smith as a submission from the Palestinian Territories.

The British popular-science programme Brainiac: Science Abuse demonstrated dilatancy dramatically by filling a swimming pool with this mixture and having presenter Jon Tickle walk across it ; this was called " walking on custard.

For a brief period during 2002, Kennett was a radio presenter for Melbourne station 3AK, continuing an interest in mass communication which was also a feature of his premiership.