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The king of children’s TV, currently in panto in Reading and in cinemas as Father Christmas in The CBeebies Christmas Show, answers questions from readers – and some of their children
Graham McCann examines the feuds between four of the nation's favourite funnymen.
THE CORPSE THAT HOAXED THE AXIS How could the British secret service believe that one dead Englishman with a phony name and some incriminating letters would hoodwink the German High Command? The astonishing fact is that "Major Bill Martin” did exactly that. Here is the most fascinating spy story of World War II June 15 1953 EWEN E. S. MONTAGU THE CORPSE THAT HOAXED THE AXIS EWEN E. S. MONTAGU June 15 1953 THE CORPSE THAT HOAXED ...
There is no material likely to offend or harm. There is an isolated and undetailed reference to suicide when a girl says a man is "in such a mood he might even kill himself". There are scenes in which people smoke cigarettes, which reflect the historical period in which the film was made. Cinema
Freddie Frinton's Dinner For One When is a British comedy legend not a British comedy legend? The answer, as far as the case of Freddie Frinton is concerned, is when you are British and a comic legend in most places except Britain. Freddie Frinton is quite an obscure figure these days in the country of his birth. In the 1960s, however, he was one of Britain's most popular comic performers, co-starring with Thora Hird in a sitcom, Meet The Wife, that was such a fixture on television in those days that it became immortalised by John Lennon in one of the tracks -