- was an English actor, broadcaster, writer and performer of comic songs
- part of the duo "Flanders and Swann"
- born in London 1922
- attended Westminster School (there he met Donald Swann for the first time)
- studied History in Oxford
- left Oxford to join the Royal Navy
- 1943: gets poliomyelitis and has to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life
- 1948-1967: professional partnership with Donald Swann as the duo "Flanders and Swann"
- "The Hippopotamus" is a famous song
- 1975: death because of a stroke
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- for the first time
- Flanders and Swann ;-)