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      • Arthur Marshall (broadcaster) Arthur Marshall, MBE (10 May 1910 – 27 January 1989) was a British writer, raconteur and broadcaster, born in Barnes, London in the UK. He was best known as a team captain on the BBC 's Call My Bluff.
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  1. Arthur Marshall, MBE (10 May 1910 – 27 January 1989) was a British writer, raconteur and broadcaster, born in Barnes, London in the UK. He was best known as a team captain on the BBC's Call My Bluff.

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  3. Aug 22, 2017 · Respected Journalist Mavis Nicholson speaks to writer and broadcaster Arthur Marshall, MBE. In these extracts Marshall discusses his work and his grumbles ag...

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    Charles Arthur Bertram Marshall was the son of Charles Marshall, an electrical engineer from Colchester and Dorothy, née Lee, from Manchester. He was enrolled at the kindergarten section of the Froebel Institute in Hammersmith in 1916, for two years, and then went to Ranelagh House, a co-educational school overlooking Barnes Common. In the summer o...

    As Marshall could not find enough acting work, or convince his parents that they should support his desire to pursue a career in the theatre, in 1931 he became a teacher of modern languages, again at Oundle School. His first work in entertainment was writing scripts for three-minute radio sketches. In 1934 a BBC producer asked him to appear on Char...

    During World War II Marshall's knowledge of French and German led to his being enrolled in the British Intelligence Corps, and he was soon sent as part of the British Expeditionary Force to northern France. After the rapid German advance he became a part of the Dunkirk evacuation. He wrote in his autobiography, "Absence of food, coupled with exhaus...

    During and immediately after World War II, Marshall had some success on radio and the stage. His wartime radio programme A Date with Nurse Dugdale was popular, and he wrote numerous revue sketches for performers such as Hermione Gingold. He appeared on radio and TV occasionally and published books of humorous pieces among other writings. The most w...

    In his autobiography, Life's Rich Pageant, Marshall was quoted as saying, "I cannot help being happy. I've struggled against it but to no good. Apart from an odd five minutes here and there, I have been happy all my life. There is, I am well aware, no virtue whatsoever in this. It results from a combination of heredity, health, good fortune and sha...

    Nineteen to the Dozen
    Girls will be Girls(1974)
    I Say!(1977)
    I'll Let You Know(Musing from 'Myrtlebank') (1981)
    Bailey, Paul (2001). Three Queer Lives: an Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-13455-2. https://archive.org/details/threequeer...
    Marshall, Arthur (1980). Follow The Sun: a Further Selection of the Writings of Arthur Marshall. London: Sinclair-Stevenson. ISBN 1-85619-022-6.
    Marshall, Arthur (1984). Life's Rich Pageant. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-11306-7.
    Stevens, Christopher (2010). Born Brilliant: The Life Of Kenneth Williams. John Murray. ISBN 978-1-84854-195-5.
  4. Jun 5, 2019 · Witty stories from the life of writer, raconteur and broadcaster Arthur Marshall.All the words, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respec...

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  5. Who was Arthur Marshall? Arthur Marshall, MBE was a British writer, raconteur and broadcaster, born in Barnes, London in the UK. He was best known as a team captain on the BBC's Call My Bluff.

  6. Arthur Marshall, MBE (10 May 1910 – 27 January 1989) was a British writer, raconteur and broadcaster, born in Barnes, London in the UK. He was best known as a team captain on the BBC's Call My Bluff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Marshall_(broadcaster)

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