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and you monsieur are the famous simon templar. but what about brother vincent, supposing he notices something he thinks clinton should know about. mr...? bond. james bond. is there time before we leave for lesson number three? absolutely. there's no sense in going off half cocked. stir in some crushed ice, shake, strain and pour. top it off with one olive. two. i said two. you were perfect up until the olives. two olives. that way you see they can gently bounce up against each other. i'm afraid the spectacle of two olives gently bouncing up against each other is a pleasure i shall forego. oh, you don't want to bust up a pair. we played it tongue in cheek.
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i really don't see myself as a hero so i'd play it as if it is all a joke. house with a door. one, two, three, four. great big curtain rings, they must have come out of a giant's house. i know, i will be an owl. hee haw! our aim, we were told, was to play one to one through the camera. # up and down with you. and it works, that is why people remember it because it was as if we were talking only to them. it's windy miller. hello, windy. peel, pugh, barney mcgrew, cuthbert, dibble, grubb. mrjohn noakes!
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i'm sure this does me good. 0h, get off my foot. while our animals are going to be happy, they will be going away on holiday, they're going to spend it in the country but lulu won't be there. at this level, the plinth on which nelson stands overhangs the column. i was literally hanging from the ladder with nothing beneath me. once i had reached the top of the column the worst part began, i had to go down again, in a bosun‘s chair. yes, i'm coming down. do you feel all right? yes, i feel good. no shep, don't buy it. no shep, don't bite him. get down shep, behave of, come here.
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or i'll cuff you around the ear. john could never be alone, no matter where he went, because shep would have a sniff around and soon pick up the scent. byjoe, i've justjumped out of this aeroplane and 50,000 feet and get down shep! hello, welcome to a special bank holiday edition of cheggers plays pop. how long did it take you to record the album. between two and three years. do you have any ideas of what you would like to swap it for? i'm back again. 14 years at the bbc. swapshop, cheggers plays pop, all sorts. i happened to miss a bus one christmas evening and went
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into a london store and saw this toy bear on the counter, nobody had bought it, it was the only one left, i took it home to my wife, we lived near paddington so we decided to call it paddington. one day i was sitting with a blank sheet of paper and a typewriter and started to write a story about it and i became a book. mr and mrs brown first met paddington on a railway station which is how he came to have such an unusual name for a bear. based on my father, very polite man, always wore a hat and paddington has a lot of him in him. good afternoon, he said, can i help you. there's parsley. sometimes mr 0nion lets him ring the school bell. london, a lovely city. you can go to france or america, india, asia, australia, is going to come
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back to london city. london is the place for me. i think there was a sort of reticence and nervousness that the women might take over all together. we might not present an acceptable face of cricket and i actually cried as i walked out onto the pitch. it was the most incredible feeling. rachel flynt, what a good piece of fielding but not good running between the wickets, though. advantage miss graf.
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0vercome with the emotion of it all. she just told me jana, you will do it, i believe one day you will do it. she's done it! 50—1, blackburn rovers seven, nottingham forest nil. after our last problem the editor of final score came with a box and when he opened it and pulled out this trophy, i thought that's absolutely made my day because that is something that i have always thought, having watched the sports personality of the year, i would love to have something like that as a souvenir of my career. grandstand theme plays batman theme
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it was a two piece but it was itchy and someone had to zip up the back, i had to fumble to get out of the suit. somebody had to be there. what now! 0ur parents were slaughtered with the others. that is why, that is why we tried to kill. that is why, that his wife. we need a team. victor, scientific, and, sandra, cable communication system wide open. you take over.
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english girls abroad with appealing shoulders and flowery dresses. mike ward paper on the march. that's right to, not bad. not bad, nice face, nice figure. good teeth too. what's the matter with you. you two, where are you taking them tonight, smithfield market? are you happy, i mean really really happy happy? fantastically happy. iam. i know it's silly but sometimes it
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worries me, i'm so happy. i keep expecting something to come along and spoil it. daft thing, what could possibly do that. it happens sometimes in an actor's life, if you are very very lucky that something special turns up. ready steady go. and one i read last of the summer wine i thought, this is it. yes, this is it, this is it, you can see tollgate church. i'm sorry, gromit, the fact is i am just crackers about cheeses. # although i cry # ain't that a shame? # ifound my thrill
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look what i've got! hey, i've got a match for my dog, we saw it in this antiques shop window on nightingale street. where are you going, jack. to see a man about a thing. i wouldn't have done that it was an emergency. i've bought my own flaming dog. calm down vera love. 48 quid. that miserable so—and—so only gave me 25. i've never loved anybody else. come on, say you've never loved anybody else. i've never loved anybody else, shall i go and get your slippers? please. i wish that at that time i had been older, so that i would have been able to have answered or spoke up for myself. you move like a racehorse.
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you must let me help you. introduce you to some friends of mine, some photographers, film people, television people. i could do wonders with you, little baby. lam homosexual, irretrievably. why did you come here looking as you do. well, many people said don't do that, you'll never work again and i said it is not about homosexuality, it is about the tenderness of the individual as opposed to the cruelty of the crowd. we did so well, but... a beautiful woman. you are my future selves? yes. am i having a midlife crisis? why are you pointing screwdrivers like that, they are scientific instruments, not water pistols. welcome aboard, delighted
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you could join us, captain strike at your service. how do you do, i'm the doctor, and this is tegan. doctor who theme plays # but where do you go to, my lovely # when you're alone in your bed # oh, won't you tell me the thoughts # that surround you # i want to look inside your head, # yes, i do # your name, it is heard in high places # you know the aga khan # and he sent you a racehorse
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for christmas # and you keep itjust forfun # for a laugh # hah, hah, hah # and they say that if you get married # it'll be to a millionaire # but they don't realise where you came from # and i wonder if they really cared... # you're a lady # i'm a man # you're supposed to understand # we are family # i've got all my sisters with me # we are family # get up everybody and think #. # my blood runs cold # my memory hasjust been sold # my angel is a centrefold # angel is a centrefold #. # you don't come around here no more
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# whatever you're looking for # i'm free, i'm free falling # you can sit around and wait for the phone to ring # waiting for someone to tell you everything # at the end of the line #. i hold you responsible for what biggins james, it is this ragbag of fugitives from the debtors prison that should concern us. i remember a day when we did alarming sequence through the night in the ice cold of winter, deep snow, endless frost. we few, we happy few!
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we band of brothers. but the removal of those grievances ought to precede the disarmament of the victims. reelin‘ in the years by steely dan. for such backbenchers, it's the curse of coalition politics, but the government is putting it down to the reality of an ageing and needful population. we've been shown that register
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and it suggests that far from lessening, the threat is greater now than at any time for the last ten years. the flood of allegations aboutjimmy savile‘s behaviour is now engulfing many of the institutions he was involved with. i think the decision to drop our story was a breach of our duty to the women who trusted us to reveal that jimmy savile was a paedophile. # some walk by night # some fly by day # nothing could change you # said i'm sure of the way # # there is the sun and moon # facing their own sweet tune # watch them when dawn is due # sharing one space
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# we'll walk by night # we'll fly by day # moonlighting strangers # who just met on the way... now in the movie industry, of course, hype is good news if the film lives up to it, very bad news of it doesn't. a morally uplifting parable about faith and redemption and how naive innocence can be mistaken for wisdom begins to unfold. now it's ok, now you can let the tears flow. i probably shed a couple myself as per the very last time i bow myself out to the accompaniment of billy tailor and the best theme tune on television. film programme theme plays and more next week. goodnight.
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jessica by the allman brothers. hot favourite after wins in 1958 and ‘59, john surtees, number three. on his way to win his sixth tt and his third successive senior tt. i don't set out with definite ambitions, ijust try and do my best whatever i do. in his ferrari, john cities, number seven, going like a bomb, leading the ten cars is still in the race. # i think i love you,
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so what am i so afraid of... when 20, 30, 40, 50,000 people screaming at the top of their lungs, "i love you," it's so overwhelming! # i'm just a daydreamer # walking in the rain... you just didn't expect to meet him personally. hi there. screaming to be honest with you, i've been touring for about three, 3.5 years, and i am really tired. # ifeel like i've never known a time before... # just knowing that your door is always open # and your path is free to walk... good evening, ladies and gentlemen, i am glenn campbell.
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i don't remember not having a guitar or a musical instrument in my hand, and my dad bought a guitar for $5.95, you know. # i love you... i found out real quick that it was lighter than pulling a cotton sack or ploughing. # i'm going to be where the lights are shining on me # like a rhinestone cowboy # riding out on a horse in a star—spangled rodeo... # i am a lineman for the county # and i drive the main road # i am a lineman for the county and what... drive... # drive the main roads. # yeah, looking in the sun for another overload. # i hearyou wire, i hear you ringing through the wire... oh, boy.
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that is just a — what a great song. # and the wichita lineman is still on the line... wichita lineman by glen campbell. # when i look at you # my heart goes shooby doo # lizzie, nosy, i get whizzy, what am i going to do? you have 55 seconds to beat the clock...starting from now. # life is the name of the game # and i want to play the game with you... nice to see you, to see you...
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nice! have a twirl, darling. a gallon of scotch. a cuddly toy. didn't he do well, didn't she do well! tony blair insists that weapons of mass destruction will eventually be found in iraq. well, it would be nice to see them, to see them... nice! announcer: live from london, this is strictly come dancing. please welcome your hosts... bruce forsyth! # in other words, please be true # in other words... # in other words, i love you # fly me to the moon.
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applause. thank you. good evening. most of us are not set to see a light christmas at the weather will turn colder as we head through christmas day and onto boxing day. the odd flake of snow around the decree across the hills of scotla nd around the decree across the hills of scotland and parts of northern england as well. things are looking mostly mild and cloudy, but we did have a little bit of sunshine breaking through the cloud on christmas eve. as we move through the next 2a hours or so through christmas day, things are staying mild but there will be more cloud, and for some of us, pretty damp as well. there is some rain on the clouds. rain is affecting parts of northern ireland, scotland, northern
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england. to the south and east of that, cloudy, windy and certainly mild and frost free. we will see colder air moving in. this is how christmas day is looking. a fairly slow—moving weather front will continue to bring rain across northern ireland, southern scotland and into england and later in the day it will push into wales. this is three o'clock in the afternoon. if you are heading on a walk, a good deal of dry weather but it is pretty windy. we could see gusts of 60 miles an houron windy. we could see gusts of 60 miles an hour on the south coast. the rain is moving in from the north and the west. rain across most of the day for northern ireland and southern scotland. some sleet and snow. the colder air heads in from the north later ron. this is calling, heavy rain pushes eastwards through christmas night and into boxing day clearing the east coast, and then we have clear and colder conditions and a few sleet and snow
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showers only over the hills and the pennines for instance. could be quite an icy start to boxing day. colder the weather but we have seen rain recently. we haven't seen a lot of sunshine recently. you will see the reappearance of sunshine during boxing day. there will be more rain working into the south—west. some windy conditions likely here as well. snow showers possible. boxing day night, some parts of england and wales, the rain comes into the colder air, we could see a bit of winter, especially to the north through parts of the midlands, north wales as well. you can see the band of rain containing a bit of sleet and snow but it will push its way gradually eastwards at the head through to wednesday, slowly clearing from the south—east and much of the country, not a bad day on wednesday. a mild, cloudy, breezy, and for some of us a damp day on christmas day. but things
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will turn brighter and colder for boxing day onwards. whatever you up to, have a very lovely christmas. this is bbc world news. i'm reged ahmad. our top stories: christians in the city of mosul are celebrating christmas for the first time since 2014, after islamic state was driven out of the iraqi city. the russian opposition politician alexei navalny says he's gathered enough support to stand against vladimir putin in next year's presidential election. turkey's government sacks thousands more public employees linked to last year's failed coup and announces plans to hire thousands more to replace them. and midnight mass is taking place at the church of the nativity, in bethlehem against a backdrop of heightened regional tension.
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