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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_McKinley Robin McKinley], author [http://www.robinmckinley.com/etc/interview_20hundred.php]
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_McMillan_%28poet%29 Ian McMillan], poet [http://www.bigissue.com/features/5415/ian-mcmillan-how-to-impress-female-bell-ringers]
  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Mallett Timmy Mallett], television performer [http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/bells.html]
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Davison Peter Davison], actor in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_%28TV_series%29 All Creatures Great and Small](3 episodes - specific episode in which he rings not yet identified)
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Davison Peter Davison], actor in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Creatures_Great_and_Small_%28TV_series%29 All Creatures Great and Small](3 episodes - specific episode in which he rings not yet identified)
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardal_O'Hanlon Ardal O'Hanlon], comedian in I've Never Seen Star Wars [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rms97]
  
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hughes Geoffrey Hughes], actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0598853/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl]
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hughes Geoffrey Hughes], actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0598853/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl]
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Matthews_%28actor%29 Francis Matthews], actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0598853/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl]
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Matthews_%28actor%29 Francis Matthews], actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0598853/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl]
  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scarborough Adrian Scarborough], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Scarborough Adrian Scarborough], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead  
 
[http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]  
 
[http://midsomermurders.org/ringout.htm]  
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Serle Chris Serle], broadcaster for 'In at the Deep End ' (BBC TV) (emails to change-ringers list)
  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Taylor Gwen Taylor], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Taylor Gwen Taylor], actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead

Revision as of 14:39, 2 January 2016

The following are people that members of the general public might have heard of who are known to have rung:

Kate Barker, economist [1]

John Betjeman, poet (email from Bryan McCahey)

Jo Brand, comedian [2]

Louise Brealey, journalist & actor (pathologist Molly Hooper in the BBC Series, Sherlock) [3]

John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progress" [4]

Ian Hay Davison, former chief Executive of Lloyds of London [5]

John Harrison, clockmaker, "Longitude". [6]

Derek Hatton, politician (email from Geoff Sparling)

Philip Hollobone, MP [7]

Robin McKinley, author [8]

Ian McMillan, poet [9]

Timmy Mallett, television performer [10]

Norma Major, wife of former Prime Minister [11]

Frank Muir, entertainment writer and performer (pp 54-5 Muir, Frank 'A Kentish Lad', Corgi Books, 1998)

Monty Noble, Australian cricket captain 1903-4 (email from Jim Shepherd)

Maggie Philbin, television presenter (email from Bryan McCahey)

Paul Revere, American revolutionary [12]

Jon Shanklin, discovered the hole in the ozone layer in 1985

Donald Sinden, actor (email from Bryan McCahey)

Alan Titchmarsh, celebrity gardener [13]

Victoria Wood, playwright & comedian [14]


People taught to ring for a broadcast performance only

John Barrowman, TV personality on the Royal Jubilee Bells as part of the 2012 Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant

Peter Benson, actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [15]

Dugald Bruce-Lockhart, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [16]

Jamie de Courcey, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [17]

Evan Davis, economist, journalist and presenter for the BBC [18]

Peter Davison, actor in All Creatures Great and Small(3 episodes - specific episode in which he rings not yet identified)

Ardal O'Hanlon, comedian in I've Never Seen Star Wars [19]

Geoffrey Hughes, actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [20]

David Lonsdale, actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [21]

Lyndsey Marshal, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [22]

Francis Matthews, actor in Heartbeat: For Whom the Bell Tolls [23]

Adrian Scarborough, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [24]

Chris Serle, broadcaster for 'In at the Deep End ' (BBC TV) (emails to change-ringers list)

Gwen Taylor, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [25]

Seamus Whitty, actor in Midsomer Murders: Ring out your dead [26]