Russell T Davies was briefly a storyliner on the programme in the mid-1990s, also writing the script for the direct-to-video special " Viva Las Vegas!

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

However, a number of writers of the novels and audio plays are also writing for the new television series, and Russell T Davies refers to the comic strips, audio plays and novels in an essay describing the Time War, written for the Doctor Who Annual 2006.

Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.

Davies also notes two flaws in Rhys's achievement.

Cantatas were also composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill.

Bron also gave the premiere performance of The Yellow Cake Revue ( 1980 ), a series of pieces for voice and piano written by Peter Maxwell Davies in protest against uranium mining in the Orkney Islands.

Grazing was also removed from Mounts Feathertop, Hotham and Bogong around this time, from around Mount Howitt in the 1980s, and from the northern Bogong High Plains, the Bluff and part of Davies Plains in the early 1990s, leaving about one third of the Alpine National Park – over 200, 000 hectares – available for grazing.

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

In 1984 Sykes played the Genie in the children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman, which also featured Windsor Davies ( who would also appear with Sykes in the BBC's Gormenghast in 2000 ), Bob Todd, Lynsey De Paul and Gareth Hunt.

Bennett also had a long-term relationship with his former housekeeper, Anne Davies, until her death in 2009.

However, the university has also contributed in other fields, such as by the work of mathematicians Paul Erdős, Horace Lamb and Alan Turing ; author Anthony Burgess ; philosophers Samuel Alexander, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Alasdair MacIntyre ; the Pritzker Prize and RIBA Stirling Prize winning architect Norman Foster and composer Peter Maxwell Davies all attended, or worked in, Manchester.

Davies ' mid-period work for the Kinks also showed signs of an emerging social conscience.

The group would also employ newer production techniques to achieve a more refined studio sound on the albums Sleepwalker ( 1977 ) and Misfits ( 1978 ), as Davies ' focus shifted to wistful ballads of restless alienation (" Life on the Road ", " Misfits "), meditations on the inner lives of obsessed pop fans (" Juke Box Music ", " A Rock & Roll Fantasy "), and exhortations of carpe diem (" Life Goes On ", " Live Life ", " Get Up ").

In this year Bailey also formed the Music Improvisation Company with Parker, percussionist Jamie Muir and Hugh Davies on homemade electronics, a project that continued until 1971.

During this time, the band changed the spelling of their name from ' Pitch Shifter ' to ' Pitchshifter ', and also recruited former The Prodigy live guitarist Jim Davies, with the band returning to their five-piece form.

The revival of Doctor Who led by the openly gay writer Russell T Davies has also seen nods towards the slash fans beyond the omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness and other characters from the spin-off Torchwood.

It is the hometown of the multi-platinum selling alternative rock / post-grunge band Collective Soul and home to one of the youngest starting pitchers ever to play for the Atlanta Braves, Kyle Davies, who also graduated from Stockbridge High School.

He also wrote a series of elegies in memory of various Methodist and other Christian leaders, including Griffith Jones ( Llanddowror ), Howel Davies ( Pembrokeshire ), George Whitefield, and Daniel Rowland.

On 1 April 1818 a retired officer on half-pay, Lieutenant Davies, who had a grievance about his application from the War Office for a pension and was also mad, shot Palmerston as he walked up the stairs of the War Office.

The 2011 Proms season also featured new works by Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Pascal Dusapin, Graham Fitkin, Thomas Larcher, Kevin Volans, Judith Weir, and Stevie Wishart.

This led to the resignation of the BBC's Chairman Gavyn Davies and Director-General ( equivalent to Chief Executive ), Greg Dyke ; Andrew Gilligan also resigned.

Mark was best known as Marianne Faithfull's accompanist for three years and for having been a member of the band Sweet Thursday ( which included pianist Nicky Hopkins and future Cat Stevens collaborator Alun Davies, also a guitarist ).

Davies also penned a novelisation of Dark Season for BBC Books, which was released concurrently with the transmission of the serial and was advertised after each episode.

As a result of Channel 4's decision, Davies pulled out of a deal that would have seen a series of Queer as Folk short stories published on the broadcaster's website, and vowed never to work with Channel 4 again.

Compered by Welles himself, the film comprised many short segments about the state of the video industry, both real and imagined, many featuring cameos by celebrities including Mel Brooks, Grace Jones, Ray Davies, and Koo Stark.

When he had been in Hollywood only a short time, he met Marion Davies and Hearst through his friendship with Charles Lederer, a writer, then in his early twenties, whom Ben Hecht had met and greatly admired in New York when Lederer was still in his teens.

Norman Davies in No Simple Victory gives a short, but shocking description of the massacres.

Kihn was contributing editor to “ Carved In Rock ,” a compilation of short fiction by musicians including Pete Townsend, Joan Jett, Ray Davies, and Kinky Friedman.

* Rhys Davies ( 9 November 1901 – 21 August 1978 ) ( born Vivian Rees Davies ) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer, who wrote in the English language.

Gordon Hillman and Stuart Davies carried out experiments with wild wheat varieties to show that the process of domestication would have happened over a relatively short period of between twenty and two hundred years.

In the short story " The Perils of the Double Sign " by Robertson Davies, ( which appears in a collection called High Spirits ,) the narrator mentions that Michael Scot is one of his favourite authors, and his knowledge of Scot's work on the occult aids him in his encounters with a genie.

Davies, referred to as “ the leading Arabic-English translator of our time ” by the late Edward Said, has translated more than twenty-five volumes of short stories, novels, plays, and poetry, and was the first to translate the work of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

To portray the characters as real human beings, Davies added short backstage scenes such as the Bennet girls dressing up to advertise themselves in the marriage market.

High Spirits is a collection of short stories by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist and professor Robertson Davies.

Murther and Walking Spirits is, in a way, another ghost story, a genre Davies visited in his short story collection High Spirits ( 1982 ).

The first series was released on Region 2 DVD on 23 May 2005, with a short reunion documentary " Brothers in Magic " and audio commentaries on selected episodes by Carpenter, Bayldon, Davies and Executive Producer Joy Whitby.

* Ray Davies also wrote a collection of short stories called Waterloo Sunset.

Davies and his teammates then embarked on a short tour of the Southern Hemisphere as part of the side's preparation for the 1987 Rugby World Cup and included victories over Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa.

" Davies felt that Adam's story provided " a chance to see someone starting on that path " before the Doctor cuts his ambitions short.

* High Spirits ( short story collection ), a book by Robertson Davies