This composer, conductor and pianist’s life revolved around alliteration: Britten’s siblings were Barbara, Beth and Bob and his professional and personal partner was Peter Pears; his Simple Symphony included the Boisterous Bourrée, the Playful Pizzicato, the Sentimental Sarabande and the Frolicsome Finale and his mother was convinced he’d be the “Fourth ‘B’ after Bach, Beethoven and Brahms”. A scallop shaped sculpture by Maggi Hambling CBE on the beach close to his Aldeburgh home, The Red House, was unveiled in his honour in 2003 and bears the following words from his opera Peter Grimes: “I hear those voices that will not be drowned”.
The Roll Call - SIGHTS AND SOUNDS
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Dame Dorothy Tutin DBE (1930 – 2001)
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Geoffrey Bayldon (1924 – 2017)
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Miriam Margolyes OBE
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Jan Harvey
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Jean Alexander (born Jean Alexander Hodgkinson, 1926 – 2016)
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Victoria Wood CBE (1953 – 2016)
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Patricia Routledge CBE (born Katherine Patricia Routledge)
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Tom Read Wilson
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Ellen Perry
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Sam Hoare
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Todd Traina
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Alex Wyndham
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Dominique Dunne (1959 – 1982)
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Brendan Jay Sullivan
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Shirley Temple (AKA “America’s Little Darling”, 1928 – 2014)
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Emily Mortimer
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Ava Gardner (1922 – 1990)
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Charlie Siem
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Sofia Coppola
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Kerry Washington
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Gillian Anderson
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James Bay
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Aidan Turner
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Robin Wright (formerly “Robin Gayle Wright” and “Robin Wright Penn”)
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Emily VanCamp
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Siân Phillips CBE
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Zack Peck (also known as Zackary Peck)
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Paula Wilcox
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Jack Peñate
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Ronnie Spector
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Angela Lansbury
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Theo James (born Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis)
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Eli Wallach (1915 – 2014)
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Robert F. Kennedy III (AKA “Bobby Kennedy III”)
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Gérard Depardieu
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Sir Donald Sinden CBE, FRSA (1923 – 2014)
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Henry Cavill
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Josh Bowman
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Matt Bomer
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Felicity Kendal CBE
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The Singing Lady
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The Hon. Nigella Lawson
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Lord Britten, OM, CH (better known as Benjamin Britten; 1913 – 1976)
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Anton Lesser
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Peter Czernin
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Susan Bennett (AKA Siri and Tillie The All Time Teller)
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Jake Shears (born Jason F. Sellards)
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Jamie Campbell Bower
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Anna Chancellor
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Michael Cassidy
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Wentworth Miller III
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Flora Ogilvy
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Cory Monteith (1982 – 2013)
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Alan Whicker CBE (1925 – 2013)
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Stuart Brayson
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Mike Rosenberg (AKA Passenger)
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Emmanuelle Seigner
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Winona Ryder (born Winona Horowitz)
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Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins, also known as Sherene Davis)
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Libby Purves OBE
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Penelope Wilton OBE
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Richard Griffiths OBE (1947 – 2013)
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Ben Howard
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Rachel Khoo
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Michelle Dockery
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Josh Henderson
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Petula Clark CBE
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Morena Baccarin
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Anne Robinson
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Dame Judi Dench CH, DBE, FRSA
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Gaspard Ulliel
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Shia LaBeouf
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Eddie Redmayne
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Derek Paravicini
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Laura Carmichael
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Antony Costa
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Beverley Craven
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Adele Adkins
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Hugh Bonneville
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Delia Smith CBE
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Pam Ayres MBE
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John Reith, The Rt. Hon. The Lord Reith KT GVCO GBE CB TD PC (1889 –1971)
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Tippi Hedren (born Nathalie Kay Hedren)
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Taylor Swift
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Benjamin McKenzie (born Benjamin McKenzie Schenkkan)
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Helen Worth (born Cathryn Helen Wigglesworth and also known as "Gail Platt")
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William Roache MBE (better known as Ken Barlow)
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Uggie
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Damian Lewis
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Lyndon Ogbourne
Sorry to have to correct you: B B’s partner was Peter PEARS. Peter Grimes (no alliteration!) was one of his operas. Who is the ‘General’ to post this?Dagmar Lowe (at present India)
Apologies Dagmar. My fault entirely. Please forgive my mistake. All the best, Matthew
You would have to have a heart of stone not to be able to repress a giggle at the fate of Peter Grimes.
The reality is, that apart from Elgar, we British do not produce great composers: thus when one appears who is not totally boring we make him a Lord and…. and to use that ghastly term beloved of the ignorant….celebrate him.