Despite the success of Barker's first panorama in Leicester Square, it was neither his first attempt at the craft nor his first exhibition.

Despite Barker's success on ITV, LWT's programme controller Stella Richman opted to fire Frost's company Paradine and as Barker was contracted to the company rather than the network, he lost his job, as did Corbett.

With his weight-loss regimen becoming a much-lauded success, he was frequently shown on-camera while he announced " the next contestant on The Price Is Right ", and was occasionally featured in Showcase skits aiding the " Barker's Beauties ".

Unfortunately orders to abandon the settlement had been received before Barker's dispatches reporting the success of his contacts with the Macassan fishers and the improvements in their relations with the Aboriginal inhabitants could affect the outcome of Governor Darling's decision.

In some cases, the great success of the productions was due in part to Barker's acting performances ( for example, as Cusins in Major Barbara and Tanner in Man and Superman ).

Whatever the case, in the words of Barker's character Billy Prior, Rivers's experience was traumatic enough to cause him to " put his mind's eye out ".

It was only a semi-circular view of Edinburgh, Scotland, and Barker's inability to bring the image to a full 360 degrees disappointed him.

Henry Aston Barker's travels to France during the Peace of Amiens led him to court, where Bonaparte accepted him.

When captured, John Derek Barker's role as a leader of mercenaries in Northern Angola led the judges to send him to face the firing squad.

Barker's unease with appearing as himself in the stage show led him to create a fictionalized version of himself to play instead.

" Peter Hall spoke of Barker's skills as a dramatic actor, calling him " the great actor we lost " and lamented that Barker was unable to take a role in one of his Shakespearean productions.

Comedian and actor Ronnie Barker ( 1929 – 2005 ) began his acting career in the town in the late 1940s and in September 2010, almost five years after his death, a bronze statue of him was unveiled by actor David Jason and Barker's one time co-star Ronnie Corbett ( the other half of the Two Ronnies ) on a new public place in Exchange Street.

Worried by these developments, Barker's father sent him to live in the United States.

By the tour's close, Blink-182 were so impressed with Barker's drumming skills that they invited him to join the band as a full-time member, an offer which Barker accepted, amicably parting ways with The Aquabats.

It was soon after this that the aborigines approached the settlement and were induced to enter by Barker's sending Norrie, their Malay interpreter's daughter, to take Wellington's hand and lead him into the fort.

The movie, for the most part, seems to follow the storyline of Barker's original design, minus the fact that the creatures themselves are described as having existed " Before the birth of any human, or longer " and it is the train conductor who tells him that he is now their new butcher.

* Barker's in Kensington can be defined as a department store by 1880, when it encompassed 15 neighbouring stores, and in 1889 the company moved into a new, large building.

Oates slipped a copy of the manuscript into the wainscot of a gallery in Sir Richard Barker's house.

The Nith then flows into Brant County, takes in the right tributary Mud Creek and left tributary Charlie Creek, passing Barker's Bush and reaching its mouth at the Grand River in Paris.

* In Clive Barker's Jericho, an entire chapter of the game throws the Jerichos into World War II, where they are to defeat undead Nazis and their occultist leader Hanne Lichthammer.

Dahlberg could not explain how the check got into Barker's bank account but said it was either given to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President or to Maurice Stans.

Clive Barker's horror novella The Hellbound Heart ( later adapted into a movie Hellraiser, followed by numerous original sequels ) centered around Lemarchand's box which appears to be such a puzzle box but in fact opens the gates to another dimension when manipulated.

The frequently used word futtock, rarely encountered outside the radio show ( apart from Ronnie Barker's comedy film Futtock's End ), had a spillover effect on words like fetlock, as well as its obvious phonetic similarity to the words fuck and buttock.

He was hosting an audience-participation radio show on KNX ( AM ) in Los Angeles when game show producer Ralph Edwards happened to be listening and liked Barker's voice and style.

Barker's movie career was damaged because of the bad publicity, but he still managed to find work as an actor on radio and films in supporting roles.

The film's story will differ from the original film, as Lussier and Farmer did not want to retell the original story out of respect for Clive Barker's work.

By the Sea was Barker's tribute to the seaside postcard humour of Donald McGill and his most " personal " work.

" Wilson added that Barker's social science research, in particular her work on the Unification Church, had been instrumental in demonstrating that the brainwashing concept, which for some years had enjoyed popularity in the media, was unable to explain what actually happened in the process of religious conversion, or to explain why so many members of new religious movements actually leave these movements again after a short period.

Australian psychologist Len Oakes and British psychiatry professor Anthony Storr, who have written critically about cults, gurus, new religious movements and their leaders, have praised Barker's work on the Unification Church's conversion process.

* Most of Clive Barker's work

Barker's work was based on his empirical work at this Midwest Field Station.

Their ethnographic work on ' Eddystone Island ' ( today known by its local name of Simbo ) and in nearby Roviana, stands as one of the first modern anthropological field projects, and was the inspiration behind sections of Pat Barker's novel The Ghost Road.

Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well.

Unusual for Barker's early work, this story is unabashedly comic.

Barker's legendarium, like that of the better-known J. R. R. Tolkien, considered not just the creation of a fantasy world but also an in-depth development of the societies and languages of the world.

In other words, the setting also provided a context for Barker's constructed languages which were developed in parallel from the mid-to-late 1940s, long before the mass-market publication of his works in roleplaying game and book form.

Much of Barker's writing concerns a time approximately 50, 000 years after Tékumel has entered its pocket dimension.

In 1975, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc., the publishers of Dungeons & Dragons, published Barker's roleplaying game and setting as a standalone game under the title of The Empire of the Petal Throne ( a synonym for the Tsolyáni Empire ), rather than as a " supplement " to the original D & D rules.

Whether the perception is fair or not, it would later plague Barker's acceptance and reputation.

In 1984, DAW Books published Barker's Tékumel novel The Man of Gold.

Prior to working in the film industry, the Wachowskis wrote comic books for Marvel Comics ' Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid ( created by horror novelist Clive Barker ) in 1993 as well as writing for Epic Comics ' Clive Barker's Hellraiser and Clive Barker's Nightbreed comic series.

* For part of the history espoused in Clive Barker's novel Galilee, the city of Samarkand is held as a shining light of humanity, and one of the characters longs to go there.

He featured in Barker's Porridge ( BBC ), a prison-based comedy, as the elderly Blanco in three episodes.

The banks that had originated the checks were keen to ensure the depository institution used by Barker had acted properly in ensuring the checks had been received and endorsed by the check ’ s payee, prior to its acceptance for deposit in Bernard Barker's account.

Rivers's methods are often, somewhat unfairly, said to have stemmed from Sigmund Freud ( essays such as Freud and the War Neuroses: Pat Barker's " Regeneration " gladly compare the two ) however, this is not truly the case as you can read both in Barker's novels and in the words of friends such as Myers.

Through Pat Barker's novels and in Rivers's works ( particularly Conflict and Dream ) we get a sense of the turmoil the doctor went through.

Barker's art education began in girlhood with correspondence courses and instruction at the Croydon School of Art.

In 1911, Raphael Tuck & Sons bought four of Barker's " little drawings " for half a sovereign, and published them as postcards.

In 1940, the Barker's live-in maid retired, and Dorothy Barker closed her school at the back of the house in The Waldrons.

Barker's mother died in 1960, and, in 1961, Barker moved from 23 The Waldrons to 6 Duppas Avenue in Croydon.

Two funeral services were held – one in Storrington Church and one in Barker's maisonette.

Barker's child subjects wear nostalgic clothing as Greenaway's children do, though Barker's children are less melancholy and less flat in appearance, due perhaps to advances in printing technology.