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 * ...that the BBC recorded live performances of Hancock's Half Hour, The Goon Show and Steptoe and Son at the Playhouse Theatre (pictured) in London?
 * ...that in 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings?
 * ...that the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall was used to stage court masques for the Stuart Kings of England, but was originally built by Henry VIII as a venue for cockfighting?

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