AT & T developed a programming language called " Hancock ", which is able to sift through enormous databases of phone call and Internet traffic records, such as the NSA call database, and extract " communities of interest "— groups of people who call each other regularly, or groups that regularly visit certain sites on the Internet.

Librarians Rand and Rose Flem-Ath as well as journalist Graham Hancock base portions of their works on Hapgood ’ s evidence for catastrophe at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum.

Le Mesurier subsequently appeared in seven episodes of Hancock's show between 1957 and 1960, and then in two episodes of the follow-up works, entitled Hancock.

In 2011, she presented Sheila Hancock Brushes Up: The Art of Watercolours, exploring the history of watercolour via beautiful yet little-known works of professional and amateur artists.

When not practicing, Hancock works for the " Grand Trunk " clacks company, supplying the Watch with information.

In 2002, the London Institute of ' Pataphysics organised an exhibition based around the recreation of all the art works seen the film and presented the exhibition as if it were a retrospective of a real unknown artist called Anthony Hancock.

Recent audio works include " The Wonderful World of Male Intuition " ( Oral ), " There Are No Crows Flying around the Hancock Building " ( Lampo ), " Rats " and " Maggots " ( both on Laton ), " Three Overpopulated Cities ..." ( Sub Rosa ), " A Lecture on Disturbances in Architecture " ( Firework Editions ) and " Ström " and " Leech " ( both on Raster-Noton ).

He was one of the main ensemble in 26 of the Carry On films and appeared in numerous British television shows and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne.

Main Wilson was casting Hancock's Half Hour, a radio series starring Tony Hancock.

Her first big break was a lead role in the radio comedy Take It From Here, and television followed, including appearances with Tony Hancock throughout his television career.

BBC Radio 4 produced a four-part radio adaptation written by David Wade and directed by Glyn Dearman ( released commercially as part of the BBC Radio Collection in 1995 ) starring Sheila Hancock as " Charlotte Bartlett ", Cathy Sara as " Lucy Honeychurch ", John Moffat as " Mr. Emerson ", Gary Cady as " George Emerson " and Stephen Moore as " The Reverend Mr. Beebe ".

* Hancock's Half Hour, a British radio and TV comedy programme, eventually shortened to Hancock

Hancock left Educating Archie in 1954 to work on his own radio show — Hancock's Half Hour, but still kept up his friendship with Le Mesurier, whilst Jacques joined the cast of the show in 1956, for the fourth series.

Le Mesurier's friendship with Tony Hancock provided a further source of work when Hancock asked him to be one of the serial supporting actors in Hancock's Half Hour, once it moved from radio to television.

The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James ; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams.

Roger Wilmut, whose 1978 biography of Tony Hancock as a performer, credits two British radio comedy shows, already running in 1954, with establishing an uninterrupted 30-minute sitcom format: A Life of Bliss, written by Godfrey Harrison and starring George Cole, and Life with the Lyons, a programme heavily based on the US tradition of sitcoms ; he therefore dismisses the notion that Galton and Simpson invented the genre.

Galton and Simpson never gave any of their Hancock scripts, for radio or television, titles ; this was usually left to the girl who filed the scripts at their office, who gave them names that were a reminder of what the script was about.

Information on series dates taken from the book Tony Hancock: Artiste ( 1978 ) by Roger Wilmut, Eyre Methuen ISBN 0-413-38680-5 ( subsequent reprints in 1983 and 1986 contain additional details ) Information on wiped radio episodes taken from the CD box sets ( BBC Worldwide, 2000 – 2003 ).

The radio series was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1992, where it was hosted by Nick Hancock.

In 1999, Hancock was replaced as host by Paul Merton ( Who was also the first ever guest on the original radio version ).

The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, although the music is diegetic, as Hancock noted: " It's only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record.

* John Hancock ( radio host )

* Jonathan Hancock, radio presenter and memory expert

Hunter Hancock ( 1916 – August 4, 2004 ) was a white American disc jockey regarded as the first in the Western United States to play rhythm and blues records on the radio, and among the first to broadcast rock and roll.

By contrast, several films such as the RoboCop series, Darkman, The Meteor Man, Up, Up, and Away, Unbreakable, The Incredibles, Sky High, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Hancock and Megamind are original, while The Green Hornet is based primarily on the original radio series and its 1960s television adaptation, and Underdog is based on an animated television series.

Galton and Simpson had previously satirised pseudo-intellectuals in the Hancock's Half Hour radio episode " The Poetry Society ", whose plot bears some similarities to the film ; Hancock attempts to imitate the style of the pretentious poets and fails, and is infuriated when his idiot friend Bill does the same and wins their untrammeled approval.

In 1975, a group of students reacted to renewed demand for student-run radio at USC and founded KSCR, a carrier-current station broadcasting at 530AM out of the Hancock Foundation Building.

A fifth season episode of the radio show Hancock's Half Hour ( broadcast May 1958 ) had Tony Hancock appear on the ( unnamed ) show and win £ 4, 000.

Gordon also appeared on the debut album by Herbie Hancock-by the mid 1960s, all four of the younger members of the Miles Davis quintet ( Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams ) were recording for the label, and Hancock and Shorter in particular produced a succession of superb albums in a mix of styles.

Hancock appeared in two episodes of Mr. Bean, first as a thief who stole Mr. Bean's camera, and later as a ticket inspector in a train.

Hancock ’ s comedy idol is Peter Cook and he got the chance to meet him when Cook appeared on Room 101.

In the same year he appeared in a third Sellers film, The Pink Panther, as a defence lawyer, and in the second Tony Hancock vehicle, The Punch and Judy Man.

Along with John Hancock, president of the Congress, Thomson's name ( as secretary ) appeared on the first published version of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776.

The comedy actor Sidney James, as he was then billed, played Sid, a criminally-inclined confidant of Hancock, who usually succeeded in conning him each week ; Bill Kerr appeared as Hancock's Australian lodger, a character who became noticeably dim-witted in the later shows.

He has also appeared with many notable jazz musicians, including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Haslip, Quincy Jones, the Buddy Rich Big Band and Buell Neidlinger.

Though he had made a short appearance with Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour in 1961, Yarwood owed his initial success to the Sunday Night at the London Palladium variety ' spectacular ', on which he first appeared in 1964.

In September 1968 Corea replaced Herbie Hancock in the piano chair in Davis ' band and appeared on landmark albums such as Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way, and Bitches Brew.

In 1994, Lewis appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, alongside other prominent jazz artists, Herbie Hancock and Roy Ayers.

Sheila Hancock, Esma Cannon and Barbara Windsor also appeared.

Throughout the 1950s he appeared on programmes including Round the Bend ( BBC, 1955 – 56 ) and Educating Archie ( ITV, 1958 – 59 ) and appeared with his friend Tony Hancock in several episodes of The Tony Hancock Show ( ITV, 1956 ) and Hancock's Half Hour ( BBC, 1957 ).

In 1994, Us3 appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, alongside other prominent jazz artists, Herbie Hancock and Roy Ayers.

* Prentis Hancock ( Vaber ) had appeared as a reporter in Spearhead from Space and would return as Salamar in Planet of Evil and as a guard in The Ribos Operation.

James Brown was among those who appeared Sunday afternoon, followed in the evening by Herbie Hancock, blues musician B.

In 1958 the British comedian Tony Hancock appeared as Khlestakov in a live BBC Television version ( which survives ), one of his few performances outside situation comedy.

Every session featured some of jazz's finest players — bassist Ron Carter, guitarist Eric Gale and organist Richard Tee appeared on many recordings, while Bob James or, in the early years, Herbie Hancock were frequently on piano.

Hancock also appeared briefly on the L. A. CBS TV station, KNXT in 1955 with the Friday night show " Rhythm and Bluesville ", interviewing such musicians as Duke Ellington, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Gene & Eunice and The Platters.