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

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.

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.

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 ".

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

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.

The first version of what was to be Barker's first successful panorama was displayed in the Barker home and measured only 137 square metres.

Barker's Panorama was hugely successful and spawned a series of " immersive " panoramas: the Museum of London's curators found mention of 126 panoramas that were exhibited between 1793 and 1863.

Barker's elder sister Vera was born in 1926 and his younger sister Eileen was born in 1933.

Barker's chemistry textbook at Oxford was previously owned by T. E.

The show starred David Frost, John Cleese and Barker's future comedy partner Ronnie Corbett, whom he had met in 1963 when Corbett was the barman at the Buckstone Club near the Haymarket Theatre, and the two became friends.

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.

Barker's material included the sketch which came to be known as " Four Candles ", airing in 1976, although in the original script it was entitled " Annie Finkhouse ".

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

Barker's next sitcom, The Magnificent Evans, which was about a Welsh photographer and aired in 1984, was not successful.

" 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.

Larry was named after Barker's idol Laurence Olivier.

He was an avid collector of antiques, books and posters and amassed a collection of over 53, 000 postcards ; he produced several compilation books of them including Ronnie Barker's Book of Bathing Beauties, A Pennyworth of Art and Sauce.

A recording of Barker's rhyming slang sermon from The Two Ronnies was played, while as the cross processed up the aisle of the Abbey, it was accompanied by four candles instead of the usual two, in reference to the Four Candles sketch.

" In Barker's eulogy, the Reverend Robert Wright stated he was " undoubtedly one of the very greatest television comedy actors " and " as a performer, he made comedy look effortlessly funny.

Parr's first contact with the medium of film was his collaboration with Nick Barker from 1990-1992, taking pictures to accompany Barker's film Signs of the Times.

Karpis was a member of Ma Barker's gang, and was assisted in the robbery by gang member Harry Campbell and at least one other accomplice.

Hellraiser ( also known as Clive Barker's Hellraiser ) is a 1987 English horror film based upon the novella The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker, who also wrote the screenplay and directed the film.

It is based on Clive Barker's short story The Body Politic and Stephen King's short story Chattery Teeth.

Kitamura recently marked his American filmmaking debut with Midnight Meat Train based on Clive Barker's short horror story of the same name.

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

The following is from Margaret Barker's commentary on Isaiah in Eerdman's Commentary on the Bible

* John Barker's personal page on Through Europe

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.

Visitors to Barker's Panorama of London, painted as if viewed from the roof of Albion Mills on the South Bank, could purchase a series of six prints that modestly recalled the experience ; end-to-end the prints stretched 3. 25 metres.

Barker's accomplishment involved sophisticated manipulations of perspective not encountered in the panorama's predecessors, the wide-angle " prospect " of a city familiar since the 16th century, or Wenceslas Hollar's " long view " of London, etched on several contiguous sheets.

The final special, and Barker's final appearance on TV-The Two Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook-was recorded in July 2005 as a result of Barker's failing health and aired posthumously in December.

Opting not to have heart valve replacement surgery, Barker's health rapidly declined after the recording of The Two Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook and he died of heart failure at the Katherine House hospice in Adderbury, Oxfordshire on 3 October 2005, aged 76, with Joy by his side.

Broadcast in 2006 on BBC Radio 4 as an Afternoon Play, adapted and directed by Neil Cargill, it starred Maxine Peake in the main role alongside Barker's old Porridge collaborator, Sam Kelly.

A small, nondenominational Christian church sits on a hill overlooking the town, thus emphasizing Barker's vision of a Christian utopia.

* Kathleen Bradley: a Barker's Beauty on The Price Is Right from 1990 – 2001

* March 25 – The pilot episode of Open All Hours airs as part of Ronnie Barker's series Seven of One on BBC1.

" Criticism of INFORM has focused on Barker's reluctance to condemn all new religions as " cults ".

" 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.

Captain George Maude's troop of horse artillery, I Troop, unlimbered its four 6-pounder and two 12-pounder guns between redoubts 2 and 3, whilst Captain Barker's battery, W Battery, of the Royal Artillery, moved out of Balaclava and took its position on Maude's left.

With the first four redoubts on the Causeway Heights either captured or out of action, all that protected Balaclava were Lucan's Cavalry Division, together with the 550 men of the 93 Highlanders, Barker's W Battery, 100 invalids under Colonel Daveney, and some Ottomans, reinforced by their countrymen from the redoubts who had rallied and formed up alongside them.

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.

The former Wheatsheaf / Rose And Crown reopened as The Barker's Brewery on 23 January 2011, as part of the Wetherspoon chain of pubs.

On July 23 it was announced that comedian Drew Carey would take Barker's place as the new host for the show beginning on October 15, 2007.

Of the three, none are actively played on the show – Trader Bob was retired from the show in 1985, Barker's Marker $ was renamed Make Your Mark following Barker's retirement, and subsequently retired, and Barker's Bargain Bar has been retooled as the Bargain Game after a four-year hiatus between 2008 and 2012.