Career: Barker joined the Oxford Playhouse in 1951 and other theatrical work in the West End followed. His theatrical success led to radio work, and he featured in 300 episodes of radio sitcom The Navy Lark, which ran from 1959 to 1977. His big break on TV came in the late 1960s when he appeared alongside Ronnie Corbett and John Cleese on The Frost Report. Barker went on to star in Porridge, Open All Hours, and, with Ronnie Corbett, formed one of the best-loved double acts of the 1970s and 1980s as The Two Ronnies. He also appeared with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in the film Robin and Marian, a bleak version of the Robin Hood legend. Barker retired from acting in 1987 to run an antiques business, but returned briefly to star as Winston Churchill's butler in acclaimed 2002 TV movie The Gathering Storm, and alongside Maggie Smith in My House in Umbria in 2003. He died of heart failure at a hospice in Oxfordshire on October 3, 2005, at the age of 76.

Career: In 1966, David Frost asked Corbett to join The Frost Report, where he met Ronnie Barker. Their on-screen chemistry proved so successful that their series, The Two Ronnies, ran from 1971 to 1987. After Barker's retirement, Corbett appeared in cabaret, in the Ray Cooney farce Out of Order and John Cleese's film Fierce Creatures, and featured in a variety of TV programmes, including The Ronnie Corbett Show and The Ben Elton Show. During his time on The Two Ronnies, he also had his own sitcom, Sorry!, which ran for seven years. His other TV credits included Love Soup, Extras, Little Britain and two-part documentary Ronnie Corbett's Comedy Britain. He revived some of his old Two Ronnies sketches together with new material in a special Christmas Day show The One Ronnie, which aired in 2010. He died on March 31, 2016 at the age of 85.

Career: Paige's first professional stage appearance was the role of a Chinese urchin in the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd in 1964. At the age of 20, she made her West End debut in Hair. During the 1970s, she played roles in a number of musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Billy and The Boyfriend. Her big break came when she was offered the title role of Eva Peron in the first stage production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita. She played the role for 20 months between 1978 and 1980 and her performance won her an Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Musical. She went on to achieve success in Cats, Chess, Anything Goes, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sunset Boulevard, The King and I and Follies. She has also released a number of albums and since 2004, she has hosted her own Radio 2 show called Elaine Paige on Sunday. In December 2013, she was a contestant on the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special.