... the straight man of the famous comedy team Scott and Whaley. Eddie was born in Montgomery, Alabama and the coloured American was a Minstrel show performer before coming to Europe. He came to Britain for an eight-week engagement and apparently never returned ...

... Rose, with the same award for a sitcom going to American show Will Grace. At the gala dinner table afterwards, some interesting comments were made. One European producer claimed that British and American programme makers have an unfair advantage when it ...

... 1960. King was born into a showbiz family. Her father, a black-faced comic, ran a travelling troupe. Uncle Billy King's Minstrels. They had a portable theatre and lived in a caravan. The family travelled constantly. She went to school in whichever town ...

... in the previous millennium together with the destruction of all theatres, so we were left with small groups of medieval minstrels from village to village. By 1100 the church itself had brought drama back into existence and Christmas and Easter stories ...