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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Till Death Us Do Part
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(BBC 1966–75) TV comedy series, written by Johnny Speight (b. 1920) and relying on dialogue rather than plot. The central character was a working-class reactionary, Alf Garnett, who spent most of each episode haranguing his long-suffering family with his outrageous views on a wide variety of topics (race and colour featured prominently). The bravura of the writing and of Warren Mitchell's performance meant that his diatribes gave as much pleasure to those who ridiculed his views as to others who may have secretly agreed with them.
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Alf returned for another brief series in 1985–6 when his wife was ill and in a wheelchair (the real-life circumstance by then of the actress, Dandy Nichols). The title of the new series (In Sickness and in Health) was taken, like the earlier one, from the Anglican marriage service. The central situation, transferred to an American context, had a great success in the USA as All in the Family.
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