The "Celebrity Big Brother" racism controversy was a series of events related to incidents of racist behaviour by contestants on the British television series "Celebrity Big Brother 5", shown on British television station Channel 4.
 The incidents centred on comments made by contestants on this reality television show, most notably Jade Goody, glamour model Danielle Lloyd, and singer Jo O'Meara, which were directed towards Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.
 The screening of these comments on UK television resulted in national and international media coverage, responses from the UK and Indian governments, and the show's suspension during the 2008 season.
Christopher Eccleston ( ; born 16 February 1964) is an English actor.
 He is known for portraying the Ninth Doctor in the British television series "Doctor Who" and Matt Jamison in the American drama series "The Leftovers" on HBO.
 He has also appeared on stage and in films such as "Let Him Have It", "Shallow Grave", "Jude", "Elizabeth", "Gone in 60 Seconds", "The Others", "28 Days Later", "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising" and "".
 Other British television series he has appeared in include "Cracker", "Fortitude" and "The Shadow Line".
Shining Time Station is an American children's television series jointly created by British television producer Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow.
 The series was produced by The Britt Allcroft Company (now Gullane Entertainment, a subsidiary of HiT Entertainment) and Quality Family Entertainment in New York City for New York City's PBS station WNET, and was originally taped in New York City and later in Toronto.
 It incorporated sequences from the British television show "Thomas & Friends", which was in turn based on a series of books that had been written by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry.
 The series aired on PBS from January 29, 1989 until June 11, 1993, and then continued on the network in reruns until June 11, 1998.
 It aired on Fox Family from 1998 to 1999.
 It also aired on Nick Jr. in 2000 and on Canadian television networks such as APTN and SCN.
 Elements from the show were incorporated into the Thomas and Friends film "Thomas and the Magic Railroad."
Smallfilms is a British television producution company which made animated tv programmes for children from 1959 until the 1980s.
 In 2014 the company began operating again, producing a new series of its most famous show, "The Clangers".
 It was originally a partnership between Oliver Postgate (writer, animator and narrator) and Peter Firmin (modelmaker and illustrator).
 Several very popular series of short films were made using stop-motion animation, including "Clangers", "Noggin the Nog" and "Ivor the Engine".
 Another Smallfilms production, "Bagpuss", came top of a BBC poll to find the favourite British children's programme of the 20th Century.
Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams (born 10 November 1963), known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is a British stage, television and film actor.
 He is best known for playing Robert Crawley in the ITV period drama series "Downton Abbey" from 2010 until 2015, and has been nominated for BAFTA, Emmy and Golden Globe awards.
The Cruise is a British television series that has aired on ITV since 3 March 2016.
 It is narrated by Hugh Bonneville.
Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008.
 Blending more traditional animal documentary style footage with dramatic narration, the series told the story of the Whiskers, one of more than a dozen families of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert being studied as part of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, a long-term field study into the ecological causes and evolutionary consequences of the cooperative nature of meerkats.
 The original programme was narrated by Bill Nighy, with the narration redubbed by Mike Goldman for the Australian airings and Sean Astin for the American broadcasts.
 The fourth series, subtitled "The Next Generation", saw Stockard Channing replacing Astin as the narrator in the American dubbing.
Clive Walter Swift (born 9 February 1936) is an English actor and songwriter.
 He is best known for his large role as Richard Bucket in the British television series "Keeping Up Appearances", but has played many other notable film and television roles, including that of Roy in the British television series "The Old Guys".
Gary Watson (13 June 1930 in Shropshire, England) is a retired British television actor who started out as a stage actor most notably acting in Friedrich Hebbel's 1962 play "Judith" at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, England with Sean Connery.
 He was however best known for his appearances in British ITC productions of the 1960s including "The Avengers", "The Saint" and "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" in 1969 in the last episode The Smile Behind the Veil.
 In 1966 he played in all 10 episodes of The Three Musketeers as Aramis starring alongside Brian Blessed and Jeremy Brett.
 He also appeared in the 1967 "Doctor Who" serial The Evil of the Daleks.
 He appeared alongside Anthony Hopkins in the 1972 Television series War and Peace.
 He played the semi-regular character of Det. Insp. Fred Connor in the long running BBC police drama Z-Cars between 1972 and 1974.
 In 1974 he played George Vavsor for 5 episodes in The Pallisers which also featured Jeremy Irons.
 In 1977, he played the role of Ross in the BBC series "Murder Most English" and also appeared in the 1988 BBC adaptation of Macbeth playing MacDuff.
 He was also much employed as a reader and narrator, featuring in dozens of commercials throughout the 1980s and 1990s, particularly noted for his work in British Transport Films, Lloyds Bank and Nescafé adverts.
Lesley Francesca Vickerage (born 1 July 1961) is an English actress best known for her roles as WPC Jenny Dean in the British television series "Between the Lines" and as Helen Lynley in the British television series "The Inspector Lynley Mysteries".

Question: What year was the narrator of the British television series "The Cruise" born?
Answer: 1963