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176: 156: 293:, London. Charles Muir left his seafaring occupation after marrying, and took up unskilled work such as extending Ramsgate's railway and loading stores onto naval vessels; he finally took a job with a firm at Leyton, supervising their machinery, and died of pneumonia when Frank Muir was a schoolboy. Margaret Muir ran a small sweet-shop across the road from the Derby Arms. 360:
and spent several years in the photographic technical school taking slow-motion film of parachute jumps on a project intended to decrease the frequency of parachutes failing (sometimes called a 'Roman Candle'). His work provided the manufacturers with the information they needed to improve both the
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the phrases were provided by the quizmaster, but in later series Muir and Norden chose their own in advance of each programme and their stories became longer and more convoluted. This became a popular segment of the quiz, and Muir and Norden later compiled
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Muir, as a photographic technician, was posted to Iceland, which was then a Danish possession under British occupation, and while there, he did some work for the forces radio station. Also while stationed in Iceland – as he described in his memoirs
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equipment and the training, which was very effective in reducing the number of failures as well as the fatality and injury rate. He was also assigned to take pictures of the agents of the
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Muir and Norden continued to write for Edwards when he began to work for BBC television with the school comedy series
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In 1949 Muir married Polly McIrvine (d. 2004). They had two children: Jamie (born 1952), a TV producer, and
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writer, radio and television personality, and raconteur. His writing and performing partnership with
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where he lived for many years. He was a writer and presenter on many shows, including the 1960s
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read the quotations, linked verbally by Muir. He published books based on these series. His
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The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose from William Caxton to P. G. Wodehouse: A Conducted Tour
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In 1954 Muir founded an amateur dramatic society, Thorpe Players, in the village of
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Muir expressed disappointment that he and Norden were never credited for it.
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An Irreverent and Thoroughly Incomplete Social History of Almost Everything
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by Mrs Henry Wood, which became the exclamation of a youth coming out of a
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for another 35. Muir became Assistant Head of Light Entertainment at the
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The pair were invited to appear on a new humorous literary radio quiz,
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Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
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which he had discovered to be out of order. In early broadcasts of
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An Irreverent and Almost Complete Social History of the Bathroom
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Upon his return to civilian life, he began to write scripts for
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The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social History
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The Frank Muir Book: An irreverent companion to social history
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from the original on 12 December 2021 – via Youtube.
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for over 10 years, and then appeared on BBC radio quizzes
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John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
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engineer Charles James Muir (1888–1934), originally from
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books that were later turned into an animated TV series.
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endured for most of their careers. Together they wrote
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Frank Muir was also, like Norden, a contestant on the
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series, by Muir and Denis Norden – story collections
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Spectator review of A Kentish Lad by Jonathan Cecil
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Oxford University Press. 2004. 788: 312:caused listeners to assume that he had received a 219:(5 February 1920 – 2 January 1998) was an English 1530: 1022:Classic British Adverts from the 1970s Part 4/10 557:audiences as a team captain on the long-running 316:education, Muir would demur: "I was educated in 1549:People educated at Chatham House Grammar School 1116:Took, Barry; Vosburgh, Dick (3 January 1998). 741:A Kentish Lad: The Autobiography of Frank Muir 593:, a coffee advert in which he used the phrase 1554:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 1229: 1265:Sir Ralph Abercromby Anstruther, 4th Baronet 997:Born Brilliant: The Life of Kenneth Williams 876: 639:Commander of the Order of the British Empire 1320:John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute 1236: 1222: 1109: 662: 41: 1589:Royal Air Force personnel of World War II 1270:Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet 328:, though prior to this he was a pupil at 1340:Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1040: 105:Writer, radio and television personality 1584:Rectors of the University of St Andrews 1410:David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir 1246:Rectors of the University of St Andrews 1174:, with 26 library catalogue records 994: 988: 796:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 591:("Every grain will drive them insane!") 268: 1531: 1196:Rector of the University of St Andrews 1050:(Supplement). 13 June 1980. p. 9. 956:. 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Index

CBE

Ramsgate
Kent
Thorpe, Surrey
United Kingdom
Royal Air Force
Second World War
CBE
comedy
Denis Norden
BBC Radio
Take It from Here
My Word!
My Music
BBC
London Weekend Television
steam tug
New Zealand
Ramsgate
Kent
Leyton
Rose Muir
MBE
Christchurch Hospital
dignified speech patterns
public school
E10
Eton
Leyton County High School for Boys

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