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===Ronald Wolfe=== Wolfe was born in London, a cousin of actor [[Warren Mitchell]], and the grandson of Russian Jewish immigrants.<ref name="Hayward2011">{{cite news |last=Hayward |first=Anthony |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/dec/19/ronald-wolfe |title=Ronald Wolfe obituary |work=The Guardian |date=19 December 2011 |accessdate=23 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="Telegraph2011">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/8966424/Ronnie-Wolfe.html |title=Ronnie Wolfe |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=19 December 2011 |accessdate=25 April 2018}}</ref> His parents ran a kosher restaurant in [[Whitechapel]], which served performers from the variety theatre across the road.<ref name="TimesWolfe">{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/ronald-wolfe-295wggdmcwn |title=Ronald Wolfe |work=[[The Times]] |date=22 December 2011 |access-date=24 April 2018}} {{subscription required}}</ref> He was educated at the Central Foundation Boys' Grammar School in Islington.<ref name="Telegraph2011"/> For a while he was a stand-up comedian. "I came from vaudeville and music halls", he once said.<ref name="Gaughan">{{cite news |last=Gaughan |first=Gavin |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ronald-wolfe-writer-and-producer-best-known-for-the-rag-trade-and-on-the-buses-6280279.html |title=Ronald Wolfe: Writer and producer best known for ''The Rag Trade'' and ''On The Buses'' |work=The Independent |date=22 December 2011 |accessdate=24 April 2018}}</ref> During the Second World War, he was an army radio operator, and after being demobbed he worked as a radio engineer for [[Marconi Company|Marconi]].<ref name="TimesWolfe"/> In the early 1950s, he began to write for the Jewish comedian [[Max Bacon (actor)|Max Bacon]];<ref name="Telegraph2011"/> after Bacon introduced him to the BBC, Wolfe contributed material for radio shows.<ref name="TimesWolfe"/> ''Starlight Hour'' (1951), broadcast on the [[BBC Light Programme]], was a series which featured [[Beryl Reid]]. Wolfe became Reid's regular writer, providing material for her characters, Brummie Marlene and the naughty schoolgirl, Monica.<ref name="Stage2011"/><ref name="Gaughan"/> After Reid joined the cast of the radio comedy series ''[[Educating Archie]]'', Wolfe joined the writing team for the series which [[Eric Sykes]] had created.<ref name="Gaughan"/> The series featured [[ventriloquist]] [[Peter Brough]] and his dummy [[Archie Andrews (puppet)|Archie Andrews]].
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