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Stanley Unwin

Stanley Unwin has been played on NTS shows including Mark Leckey, with Hi-De-Fido first played on 17 May 2015.

Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 Pretoria, South Africa – 12 January 2002 Danetre Hospital, Daventry, Northamptonshire), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comedian and comic writer, and the inventor of his own language, "Unwinese," referred to in the film Carry On Regardless as "gobbledegook".

Unwinese was a mangled form of English in which many of the words were corrupted in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy". Unwin claimed his gift came…

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Stanley Unwin
Pye Records1961
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Stanley UnwinPye Records1961
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