As noted by Libby Davies, NDP House Leader, " We had some crazy moments but we always got down to business in a real way.

When he first got the script in 2007, he was unsure if British television needed another Jane Austen adaptation but he took the role when he saw how Davies had given more screen time to the male characters than they get in the 1995 film adaptation.

When the enemy delivered their second counterattack, the party was completely surrounded, but Corporal Davies got his men into a shell hole and by throwing bombs and opening rapid fire he succeeded in routing the attackers, and even followed and bayoneted them in their retreat.

" Lennon described to biographer Hunter Davies how he got the words from an advertisement.

In Series 7, Davies got a job as a technical assistant on the show and left, so the team was entirely changed.

Davies and his wife live in Wandsworth, having moved there to give their daughter the opportunity to attend a better school.

At the autumn 2009 Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth, Davies made a speech in a debate about the MP expenses scandal, where he appeared to become very angry, exclaiming " I hate, I hate the dirty cheating bastards who have taken every opportunity to fill their private pockets with public money .. .. they should play no part in public life ".

The last two years of Davies ' Radio 1 career allowed him the opportunity to display his love of music ; higher-profile shows often negated the need for DJs to be heard caring for the songs they were playing, concentrating instead on the personality side of the programming.

As one who shares much of the blame for casting another shadow — the shadow of Susan Alexander Kane — I rejoice in this opportunity to record something which today is all but forgotten except for those lucky enough to have seen a few of her pictures: Marion Davies was one of the most delightfully accomplished comediennes in the whole history of the screen.

Davies led the Kinks through a period of musical experimentation between 1966 and 1975, with notable artistic achievements and commercial success.

With the eerie, droning " See My Friends "— inspired by the untimely death of the Davies brothers ' older sister Rene in June 1957 — the band began to show signs of expanding their musical palette even further.

As the band began to experiment with theatrical sound effects and baroque musical arrangements ( Nicky Hopkins played harpsichord on several tracks ), Davies ' songwriting fully acquired its distinctive elements of narrative, observation and wry social commentary.

As children, the Davies brothers were immersed in a world of different musical styles, from the music hall of their parents ' generation, to the jazz and early rock n ' roll that their older sisters listened to.

The interest in non-Western music ( for instance Indian raga ) sparked by the meeting with Messiaen's music combined with the interest in medieval modes shared with Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle largely influenced Goehr's first musical imaginings.

He was awarded honorary doctorates from numerous leading musical institutions, including the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, as well as the Walford Davies Award.

Rhymney is known to many outside of Wales as a result of the song " The Bells of Rhymney ", a musical adaptation of a poem by Idris Davies.

The musical score was a collection of cover versions of songs by David Bowie, Brian Eno, Simple Minds, The Psychedelic Furs, Frank Sinatra, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, XTC, Talking Heads, The Velvet Underground, PiL, The Cure and Killing Joke, which saw Davies collaborating with pianist Max Lambert in the development of the music.

It was only after Doreen Davies, who was head of BBC Radio 2, noticed him at a BBC audition that he took a notable stride in his musical career.

In January 1940 was appointed by Sir Walford Davies to be one of six musicians charged with inspiring and organising musical activities among civilians in rural areas.

On stage Dobson has starred in repertory at Salisbury Playhouse in Shaw's Pygmalion in 1980 ; the 1981 Ray Davies / Barrie Keeffe musical Chorus Girls and as Hazel Fletcher in the short-lived musical Budgie with Adam Faith.

Belleplates were invented by Maurice Davies when he struck with his knuckles a piece of aluminium he had cut out to make something in his workshop, and was pleasantly surprised that it made a pleasant musical sound much like that of handbells.

Celtic Cross was a musical collaboration of Simon Posford ( Hallucinogen, Shpongle ), Martin Glover ( bassist from Killing Joke ) and Saul Davies ( violinist from James ).

He directed the hit musical Come Dancing, co-written by Ray Davies.

He went on to train in musical theatre at the Bush Davies School of Theatre Arts and Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts.

A notable interpreter of 20th century and contemporary opera, Caine's world premieres have included: Jezebel, presented by the Toronto Symphony ( title role ; oratorio by Robertson Davies and Derek Holman ); Playing Away, presented by Opera North ( role: L. A. Lola ; by Howard Brenton and Benedict Mason ); The Golden Ass, presented by the Canadian Opera Company ( role: Fotis ; by Robertson Davies and Randolph Peters ); Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, presented by Psappha ( 6 female roles ; by David Pountney and Peter Maxwell Davies ); Mathilde, a new musical by Conor Mitchell directed by Simon Callow ( Edinburgh Fringe Festival ); Intolerance, a one-woman opera by Mark Ravenhill and Conor Mitchell presented by Tête-à-Tête.

At the turn of the 1970s he worked with Peter Maxwell Davies and brought the Red Buddha Theatre company from Japan to Europe, acting as their director, producer and composer, writing and performing in the multi-media event " The Man From The East ", with Morris Pert's Come To The Edge providing the musical backing.

In early 2009, Bourne and fellow play writer Elliot Davies announced a musical play based on Son of Dork's debut album Welcome to Loserville which would premier for two exclusive nights in South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell on the 20 and 21 August.

In 1981 he appeared in the Ray Davies / Barrie Keeffe musical Chorus Girls at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East and he was also seen in The Changing Room, directed by Lindsay Anderson, at the Royal Court Theatre.

The musical director of the premiere was Dennis Russell Davies.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.

Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.

A translation by Richard Davies, bishop of St David's and the scholar William Salesbury was published in 1567 by Humphrey Toy as Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin.

However, this practice did cause some controversy: Numerous politicians, journalists, and authors, such as Robertson Davies, decried the change at the time, and some continue to maintain that it was illegitimate and an unnecessary break with tradition.

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!

The curve was studied 1826 by Davies Gilbert and, apparently independently, by Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis in 1836.

Five months after the release of Tommy, The Kinks released another concept album, Arthur ( Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire ) ( September 1969 ), written by Ray Davies ; though considered by some a rock opera, it was originally conceived as the score for a proposed but never realised BBC television drama.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

It is said that during a visit to Alde House around 1860, one evening while sitting by the fireside, Elizabeth and Emily Davies selected careers for advancing the frontiers of women's rights ; Elizabeth was to open the medical profession to women, Emily the doors to a university education for women, while 13-year-old Millicent was allocated politics and votes for women.

By the 18th century, the term had gained its now common usage in France, and had begun to be used to refer purely to books of magic, which Owen Davies presumed was because " many of them continued to circulate in Latin manuscripts.

As the historian Owen Davies noted, " while the Church was ultimately successful in defeating pagan worship it never managed to demarcate clearly and maintain a line of practice between religious devotion and magic ," and the use of such books on magic continued.

Davies, the gospel of Matthew was written as a direct response to developments within the Jewish community following the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters.

Secombe was born in rooms in the Danygraig Area of St. Thomas and later the family moved to a council house in the St Thomas district of Swansea, the third of four children of Nellie Jane Gladys ( née Davies ), a shop manageress, and Frederick Ernest Secombe, a grocer .< ref >

Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”

Lamorna Cove was the title of a poem by W. H. Davies published in 1929.

The loss was so heavy that Norman Davies wrote: " At Chmielnik, the assembled nobility of Małopolska perished to a man.

Garrick's Macbeth was celebrated ; Thomas Davies claims that when the Duke of Parma asked Garrick to demonstrate his acting ability, he acted the scene of Banquo's ghost.