Aylesbury, England - Page 37

Carruthers · 08-13-2020, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Neat, I take it he's a celebrity of some sort.

Yes, he was a comic actor who started his theatrical career in Aylesbury and was noted for his comedy partnership with Ronnie Corbett in the imaginatively titled TV sketch show 'The Two Ronnies'.

I think that he really shone in the series 'Porridge' in which he played Norman Stanley Fletcher a prisoner at HM Prison Slade.

He's depicted in the sculpture as that character wearing prison issue dungarees.

'Porridge' is still being shown and I recorded an episode earlier this week.

Ronnie Barker statue unveiled in Aylesbury

xoxoxoBruce · 08-13-2020, 12:27 PM

Thank you Sir.

BigV · 08-14-2020, 10:35 PM

Thanks from Yanks!

monster · 08-14-2020, 11:01 PM

Diaphone Jim · 08-15-2020, 12:06 PM

Using youtube's closed captioning allowed me to figure out about alf of that.

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