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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 Zimmerman Telegram Zimmerman Telegram On February 24, .. 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. 1803 - Marbury v. Madison established judicial review in the U.S. 1917 - The Zimmermann Telegram was delivered, complicating World War I. 1999 - Arizona executed German national Karl LaGrand. Recent days: February 23 - February 22 More events in history... Did you know ...? Princess Margriet of the Netherlands ... that Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (pictured) was born in Canada's capital, but outside the country's legal jurisdiction? ... that William van Praagh pioneered the lip-reading method for the education of the deaf in England? ... that players of the simulation video game Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up need to manage everything from the construction of train stations to dumping trash cans? ... that Jennifer Reid at first could not find a Canadian publisher for her book on Canadian identity? ... that the 1975 French jazz-funk album Troupeau Bleu has been sampled by hip-hop artists at least 142 times since the 1990s? ... that a viral image called for global attention to the humanitarian crisis following the Tel al-Sultan attack? ... that Patrick Pillay negotiated Seychelles' re-entry into the Southern African Development Community with a reduced membership fee? ... that Susan Twist portrayed seven different roles in the eight episodes of Doctor Who's fourteenth series? ... that Allen DeGraffenreid, who played in the NFL in the 1990s, is not to be confused with Allen DeGraffenreid, who played in the NFL in the 1990s?	In the news David Lynch in 1990 American filmmaker David Lynch (pictured) dies at the age of 78. South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol is arrested after his declaration of martial law. Joseph Aoun is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy, and Nawaf Salam is nominated as prime minister. An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 19 deaths. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Elgar Howarth Stephanie Aeffner Furio Colombo Heinz Kluetmeier Qiu Dahong Bob Uecker Holidays {{Holidays}} Obituaries Italian cyclist Marco Pantani died suddenly at a hotel in Rimini, Italy on February 14. Former Chechen president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion on February 13. Former leader of the Canadian liberal party, Claude Ryan, died from stomach cancer on February 9 at age 79. More recent deaths...
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