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Philip K Dick Isaac Asimov Robert A Heinlein

Alf Garnett Tony Garnett Garnett Brown

Alphonse Daudet Howdy Doody Baby Dodds

Lolo Ferrari Earl Ferrars Bryan Ferry

Lord Boothby The Krays George Crabbe

"The Horace Silver Songbook" on Night Lights from WFIU.

Connie Francis Panama Francis Canaletto

Hedda Gabler Milt Gabler Bags

Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS Now playing: Serge Chaloff, "Bopscotch" from The Complete Serge Chaloff (Mosaic)

Edward Hopper Barry Hopper (aka Harry the Bopper - friend of my youth) Big Bopper

Frankie Capp Jack "The Hat" McVitie Trilby

Noggin the Nog Lita Roza Boosey and Hawkes

Taki Jeffrey Bernard Theodore Dalrymple Former "Spectator" columnists (my dad read it) Phil Spector Specs Powell Philip Glass

Jim Rosenthal David Coleman David Icke Van Eyck Laurie Taylor Truck Parham

Ron Vincent Dean Johnson Ted Rosenthal

You're typifying a trend to turn away from TV, particularly noticeable in young people, who are finding most of what they want on the internet. My TV watching is down to a half hour newscast per day, just to see the film clips of what I hear about on the radio and read about in my newspaper, though I could see these on the computer, anyway! Apart from this, my only use of television is to record - and later replay - films which catch my fancy - which is hardly making use of the resources of the television industry!

Joyce Carey James Joyce Henry James

Jimmy Edwards Dick Bentley The Glums (not sure about Wallas, though)

Lester Young Baby Face Willette Kid Thomas

Chet Baker Jim Bakker Acker Bilk

Frederick March Avril Angers Theresa May

Paul Calf Hubert Fol Kitty O'Shea

Albert Fat Albert Rotunda Alberto y Los Trios Paranoias Half Man Half Biscuit (another curiously named North Western group) Gil Evans (composer of "Half Man Half Cookie") Cracker (alias Robbie Coltrane)

Cliff Heather Fearne Cotton Kate Moss

Steve Swallow Dean Swift Martin Drew