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Tiring of his reduced status, he joined Kenneth Horne in Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ), and its sequel, Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 ).
His roles in Round the Horne included Rambling Syd Rumpo, the eccentric folk singer ; Dr Chou En Ginsberg, MA ( failed ), Oriental criminal mastermind ; J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, telephone heavy breather and dirty old man ; and Sandy of the camp couple Julian and Sandy ( Julian was played by Hugh Paddick ).
From 2003 to 2005, Robin Sebastian took on Williams in the West End stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited, recreating his performance in 2008 for a production called Round the Horne: Unseen and Uncut.
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With Marty Feldman he wrote most episodes of Round the Horne.
It was popularised in the 1960s by camp characters Julian and Sandy in the popular BBC radio show Round the Horne.
Since the mid-1990s, with the redistribution of tapes and CDs of Round The Horne starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick, and increasing academic interest, Polari has undergone something of a revival.
Julian and Sandy were characters on the BBC radio comedy programme Round the Horne from 1965 to 1968 and were played by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams respectively, with scripts written by Barry Took and Marty Feldman.
In the 2003-5 stage show Round the Horne ... Revisited ( filmed for BBC Four ), Paddick and Williams ( and therefore Julian and Sandy ) were played by Nigel Harrison and Robin Sebastian.
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Ill health forced him to choose between commerce and show business after 1958, and, choosing the latter, he made two further popular radio series, Beyond Our Ken ( 1958 – 1964 ) and Round the Horne ( 1965 – 1968 )
When Beyond Our Ken came to an end in 1964, the BBC commissioned a replacement series, Round the Horne, on similar lines, from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.
With Barry Took as script editor ( and later producer ), this was an attempt to translate the spirit of Round the Horne to TV, though with different actors supporting Horne: Graham Stark, for example, substituted for Kenneth Williams and Sheila Steafel for Betty Marsden.
Presenting the awards was Earl Mountbatten of Burma ; an award had just gone to Barry Took and Marty Feldman ( writers of Round the Horne ) for their TV series Marty, and Horne had just urged viewers to tune into the fifth series of Round the Horne ( due to start on 16 March ) when he fell from the podium.

Round and played
Normally the First Round is played in mid-November, with the Second Round on one of the first two Saturdays in December.
The third round is played on the first weekend in January, with the Fourth Round later in the month and Fifth Round in mid-February.
The Uruguay Round was also the first set of multilateral trade negotiations in which developing countries had played an active role.
* Rodney Eade – Australian Rules Footballer who played 259 games for Hawthorn and the Bears, was head coach of the Western Bulldogs until Round 21, 2011
In the seven matches played between these two teams between Round 7, 2007 and Round 1, 2010 inclusive, Ross Lyon had the wood over Paul Roos 5 – 2.
Horne was played in the West End and in the film by Jonathan Rigby, who in 2008-9 reprised the role in a new show, devised this time by Barry Took's ex-wife Lyn, called Round the Horne – Unseen and Uncut.
In the touring version of Round the Horne ... Revisited ( 2004-5 ), Horne was played by Stephen Critchlow, who also played him in the BBC television drama Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
In the radio series Round the Horne, she played a similar role ( Daphne Whitethigh ), as well as Lady Counterblast ( née Clissold ), Buttercup Gruntfuttock ( wife of J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, personified by Kenneth Williams ), Dame Celia Molestrangler, Judy Coolibar, Dame Bella Goatcabin, and others.
The Big Money Round was played until the end of season four in June 2002.
Summers played guitar on Sting's album ... Nothing Like the Sun ( 1987 ), a favor the singer returned by playing bass on Summers ' album Charming Snakes ( 1989 ) and later singing lead vocals on "' Round Midnight " for Summers ' tribute to Thelonious Monk Green Chimneys ( 1999 ).
She played an officious headmistress in The Happiest Days of Your Life at the Apollo Theatre in 1948 and such classical roles as Madame Desmortes in Ring Round the Moon ( Globe Theatre, 1950 ), Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World ( Lyric Hammersmith, 1953 and Saville Theatre, 1956 ) and Mrs Candour in The School for Scandal ( Haymarket Theatre, 1962 ).
Rambling Syd Rumpo was a folk singer character, played by the English comedian and actor, Kenneth Williams, originally in the 1960s BBC Radio comedy series, Round the Horne.
In the case of ties after regulation in the First Round and MLS Cup, 30 minutes of extra time ( divided into two 15-minute periods ) would be played followed by a penalty-kick shootout, if necessary, to determine the winners.
Williams and Paddick also played a couple of camp men-about-town, Rodney and Charles, in many ways ( although not as extreme ) precursors of Julian and Sandy in Round The Horne.
The following season, they played in Europe again in the Cup Winners ' Cup, reaching Round 3 where they lost 2 – 3 on aggregate to Anderlecht.
The first film was called Comin ' Round the Mountain ( 1940 ) and featured the McGees ' neighbors The Old-Timer ( played by Bill Thompson ) and Gildersleeve, as the mayor of the town.
Home games for the Round Rock Express are played at the Dell Diamond, a facility that is owned by the City of Round Rock and leased long-term to RSR Sports who run and maintain the facility.

Round and important
Member of the Commission ( Hallstein Commission ) of the CEE from 1958 until 1967, responsible for external relations, he played an important role in the negotiations of the Kennedy Round ( 1964 – 1967 ).
Todos os Santos Bay has also been traditionally the venue for rowing contests at the Enseada dos Tainheiros, in Salvador and now the bay is included in the routes of the great international regattas, such as the Ralley Les Iles du Soleil, regatta Hong Kong Challenge and the Expo 98 Round the World Rally, which consider the bay an important stop along the route.
This action is depicted in the novels The Killer Angels and Courage on Little Round Top, and was subsequently an important scene in the movie Gettysburg.
Round holes and smooth transitions or fillets are therefore important to increase the fatigue strength of the structure.
The Rondul Român (" Romanian Round ") or Rotonda Scriitorilor (" Writers ' Rotunda ") is a circular alley which has stone busts of twelve important Romanian writers: Mihai Eminescu, Alexandru Odobescu, Titu Maiorescu, Ion Luca Caragiale, George Coşbuc, Ştefan Octavian Iosif, Ion Creangă, Alexandru Vlahuţă, Duiliu Zamfirescu, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Nicolae Bălcescu and Vasile Alecsandri.
He firmly believed in the process of taking power from the ruling Polish United Workers ' Party through negotiation and thus he played an active role in the Polish Round Table Talks, becoming one of the most important architects of the agreement by which partially free elections were held on 4 June 1989 and won by Solidarity in a historic landslide.
Round gobies are also voracious predators of eggs of native fish, many important to the angling industry.
The Round boasts two important technical innovations: the stage lift, facilitating speedy set changes and the trampoline, a Canadian invention which allows technicians particularly easy access to the lighting grid.
As with Long Way Round, visiting and raising awareness for UNICEF projects was an important part of the journey.

Round and role
As was common in BBC radio at that time, Hatch served both as the show's announcer and as a cast member ( similar to Douglas Smith's role in Round the Horne ; Hatch however did give his roles some characterisation, in contrast to Smith's totally deadpan style ).
Nevertheless, he successfully took over the part of Father in John Mortimer's A Voyage Round My Father at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, also touring Canada and Australia in the role in 1972-73. International touring continued in 1974-75 with a Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Hollow Crown, visiting major venues in the US and Australia, while in 1976-77 he toured South America, Canada and the UK in the anthology, Shakespeare's People.
Texas State University has taken on the lead role in this effort and of land for the facility and additional buildings was donated by the Avery family of Round Rock, whose family were early settlers on the land surrounding the RRHEC.
The book was the basis for Round Midnight, a film inspired by the lives of Powell and Lester Young, in which Dexter Gordon played the lead role of an expatriate jazzman in Paris.
He secured a supporting role in a Hollywood film, Knights of the Round Table ( 1953 ), which led to being cast with Rex Harrison and George Sanders in King Richard and the Crusaders ( 1954 ).
In July – August 2006, he played the eponymous role in A Voyage Round My Father at the Donmar Warehouse, a production which then transferred to the West End.
In 1986, Gordon starred in the movie Round Midnight as ' Dale Turner ', an expatriate jazz musician much like himself ; the role might even be a thinly veiled biography of him, though Lester Young and Bud Powell were its main inspirations.
On 12 March 2009, during the UEFA Cup Round of 16 match against Hamburger SV, Kewell had to play as a centre back for 40 minutes after the sending off of teammate Emre Aşık, but managed to fulfill the role adequately despite playing out of position.
Although his name is never said, Chamberlain's actions during the Battle of Gettysburg are popularized in the song Hold at All Costs featured on the CD The Glorious Burden by the band Iced Earth, in which singer Tim Owens takes the role of Chamberlain at the battle on Little Round Top.
The most notable battle was the regiment's decisive role on July 2, 1863, in the Battle of Gettysburg, where it was stationed on Little Round Top at the extreme left of the Union line.
Though in later stories, she becomes an adversary of the Round Table when Guinevere discovers her adultery with one of her husband's knights, she eventually reconciles with her brother and even retains her original role, serving as one of the four enchantresses who carry him to Avalon after his final battle at Camlann.
One aspect of this criticism is that figures very close to rich country industries — such as former Cargill executive Dan Amstutz — had a major role in the drafting of Uruguay Round language on agriculture and other matters.
Dobson appeared in a few series in the early 1980s, including the Jim Davidson sitcom Up the Elephant and Round the Castle ( 1983 ), but she is best known for playing the emotionally battered and alcoholic landlady, Angie Watts, in the BBC1 soap opera, EastEnders, a role which she played from the show's inception in 1985 to 1988.
However, after he was injured in Round 10, New Zealand halfback Stacey Jones regained the half back role, and upon returning to the side Alexander was moved to the fullback position-where he would remain for most of the remaining season.
Marshall's recent productions include Dead Man's Cell Phone at Woolly Mammoth in 2007 ; Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis at Woolly Mammoth and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, featuring Marshall in the title role, at Studio Theatre in 2006 ; and Camille at Round House Theatre and The Clean House at Woolly Mammoth in 2005, for which she received her fourteenth Helen Hayes nomination.
She was perhaps best known for title role of Hanna Glawari in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow, which she sang with the Sadler's Wells Opera ( now known as English National Opera ), with Thomas Round as Danilo.
Players take on the roles of Knights of the Round Table ( with the possibility that one player takes the role of traitor ) and play the game by fulfilling quests.
) Crawford also spent considerable effort politicking to get the official records of the war to acknowledge his role as the savior of Little Round Top, but he was also unsuccessful in this quest.
His starring role in the 89 point win came at a cost however, with a dislocated kneecap suffered late in the final quarter keeping him out until Round 13.

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