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Welcome to Wikipedia Wikipedia is a no-cost free-content cooperative encyclopedia in many languages. In this English edition, started in January 2001, we are working on 6,941,923 articles. Learn how to edit pages, experiment in the sandbox, and visit our Community Portal to find out how you can edit any article right now. Learn more Featured article Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh was a comedy show broadcast from 1944 to 1950 and from 1951 to 1954 by BBC Radio, and from 1950 to 1951 by Radio Luxembourg. It was written by and starred Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne as officers in a fictional Royal Air Force station coping with red tape and the inconveniences and incongruities of life in the Second World War. After the war the station became a country club and, for its last season, the show became the chronicle of a newspaper, The Weekly Bind. Among the supporting cast were Sam Costa as the officers' batman, Maurice Denham in a multitude of roles, Dora Bryan and Nicholas Parsons. Singers in the show's musical interludes included Gwen Catley, Maudie Edwards, Binnie Hale and Doris Hare. Among those appearing as guest stars were Phyllis Calvert, Richard Dimbleby, Glynis Johns, Alan Ladd and Jean Simmons. The show followed It's That Man Again as the most popular British radio comedy and was succeeded by Take It from Here and The Goon Show. After the show ended, its two stars returned to radio in several long-running series. (Full article...) Recently featured: Freston causewayed enclosure William Robinson Brown Night of January 16th Edit Did you know? Desert paintbrush ... that the flowers of the desert paintbrush (example pictured) are small, green, and unremarkable? ... that all sporting events in Djibouti were banned for three days after the death of Abdoulkader Waberi Askar? ... that the 1925 Tri-State tornado was the deadliest in United States history? ... that Annilese Miskimmon directed a choose-your-own-ending production of Mozart's Così fan tutte? ... that more than 60 student athletes were involved in an academic dishonesty scandal at Florida State University between 2006 and 2007? ... that Malik Ambersley escaped homelessness by making TikTok Live content in which he pretended to be a non-player character version of the superhero Miles Morales? ... that Polish prisoners of war in World War II were held not only by Nazi Germany but also by the Soviet Union? ... that the death of child monarch Kerekorio Manu Rangi in 1867 ended the ancient dynasty of Easter Island, which according to local belief "went back to the gods themselves"? ... that a widespread violin performance scam was described by radio host Scott Simon as "one more raindrop in the storm of schemes that blur our view of what's right in front of us"? Archives  Edit

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