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Operation Mincemeat is a musical comedy with book, music and lyrics by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts (known as the musical comedy troupe SpitLip). [1] The plot is based on the Operation Mincemeat , a Second World War British deception operation.
Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligence operation sounds like a mad idea until you hear the bonkers details of the actual story.
Norman "Bill" Limbury Auchinleck Jewell (24 October 1913 – 18 August 2004) was an officer in the Royal Navy. As commander of the submarine HMS Seraph, Jewell was involved in an act of deception during the Second World War. The story of Operation Mincemeat, as the plan was known, became the subject of several books and two films.
Sir William Bentley Purchase CBE MC (31 December 1890 – 27 September 1961) was a British physician and barrister. He pursued a career in medical examination and served, from 1930 to 1958, as the coroner with jurisdiction over much of London. [ 1 ]
In today’s Global Bulletin, Warner Bros. announced the Jan. 7 theatrical release for “Operation Mincemeat”; Nigerian Oscar submission “The Milkmaid” to headline BFI African Odyssey ...
Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelligence operation sounds like a mad idea until you hear the bonkers details of the actual story.
The group, initially called the Blackjacks, quickly changed its name to the Quarrymen. Tomlinson and Smith's tenure in the band was extremely short, and he was replaced in quick succession by Eric Griffiths, Nigel Walley, Ivan Vaughan, and Len Garry throughout late 1956 and early 1957. Smith's tea chest bass was stolen by John Lennon and Pete ...
Rear-Admiral Sir David Scott, KBE, CB (5 April 1921 – 20 January 2006) was an officer in the Royal Navy from 1937 to 1980. He was second in command and served as a first lieutenant aboard HMS Seraph during Operation Mincemeat.