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Sam Wanamaker, the American actor, producer and director, was responsible more than anyone else for today’s Shakespeare Globe Theatre on London’s South Bank.

In 1970 he launched the Shakespeare Globe Trust, with the sole intention of creating a replica of the original 16th century open-air theatre. He worked tirelessly on his project, overcoming great swathes of scepticism and all kinds of other obstacles – but in the end he not only raised more than £5 million but he also acquired a prime development site overlooking the Thames.

Unfortunately, Wanamaker never lived to see his dream come true: he died of prostate cancer in 1993, just four years before work was finished and the theatre was opened by the Queen. But Shakespeare's Globe still flourishes today – and were it not for the tenacity of this distinguished American, Britain and the world would be without this utterly exquisite and unique theatre.

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This bust of Sir Noël Coward, the playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, was sculpted by Avril Vellacott and greets everyone who visits Teddington Library in Waldegrave Road. Which is quite fitting really, because not far along the road, at number 131, is the house where 'The Master' was born on 16 December 1899. In an accomplished life, Coward wrote more than 50 plays - some of his best-known being Blithe Spirit, Hay Fever, Private Lives and The Vortex. Among his musical compositions were London Pride, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Mad About the Boy and, of course, Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage. Mrs Worthington. As an actor, he appeared in a variety of films such as Our Man in Havana, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Italian Job.

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The statue of Laurence Olivier as Hamlet looks towards the National Theatre in London. The sculpture, unveiled in 2007, is by Angela Connor.

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In June 1965 the Mermaid Theatre in London presented 'Left-Handed Liberty', a new play by John Arden specially commissioned by the Corporation of London to commemorate the 750th anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta. The cast included Patrick Wymark, Esmond Knight, Sonia Dresden, Bernard Miles, Freddie Jones, Timothy Bateson, Sally Miles, Denise Coffey and Colin Ellis.

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Title page from the London Palladium souvenir brochure, 1979