In 1984, as Neil from "The Young Ones", Planer had a number two hit single called "Hole in My Shoe". This had originally been a hit for 1960s band Traffic). A cover of Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle" was a less successful follow up, only reaching No.97 in the charts. After that, an album was produced, entitled "Neil's Heavy Concept Album". Planer also toured Neil's stage act in the "Bad Karma in The UK" tour. This culminated in a month-long run at St. Mary's Hall at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
In 1986, "The Young Ones" appeared on Cliff Richard's charity rerecording of "Living Doll". This spent three weeks at number one in the UK. Planer has a silver and a gold disc and has a Brit award from his musical career.
In 2015 he started a new music project called Rainsmoke with Chris Wade, of Dodson and Fogg, and Roger Planer.
In 2017 he recorded two songs for the album "Wit & Whimsy - Songs by Alexander S. Bermange". One he performed solo and one featured all of the album's 23 artists. It reached No. 1 in the iTunes comedy album chart.
Planer is the main reader for the audiobook editions of many of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels. He also appeared in the television adaptations of both "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather" and "The Colour of Magic", and performed as a voice artist in the games "Discworld 2" and "Discworld Noir".
Planer was the narrator of "Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids", the title character of "Romuald the Reindeer", and Dr. Marmalade in an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants" (alongside Young Ones co-stars Christopher Ryan and Rik Mayall).
Planer has also been the narrator of many of BBC Four's "Britannia" series of documentaries, including "Prog Rock Britannia", "Blues Britannia" and "Heavy Metal Britannia".
Planer voiced Frodo in "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil" from the 1992 radio series "Tales from the Perilous Realm". He was a narrator in a direct-to-video version of Val Biro's "Gumdrop" book series in 1994. He also narrated two short surreal monologues on the album "In A Strange Slumber", by Dodson and Fogg, Chris Wade's progressive folk rock project.
Planer narrated as a thirty-something Adrian Mole in the radio adaptation of "Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years".
In 2018, he voiced the character of Henry Davenant Hythe in the Big Finish Productions original production, Jeremiah Bourne in Time, which he also wrote.
His television comedy and satire work includes:
He has published several books including the novels "The Right Man" (2000) () and "Faking It" (2003) (). Planer also wrote "A Good Enough Dad" (1992) () after his first son was born, talking about coping with becoming a father.
Virtue, Liberty and Independence
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Ambazonia
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Samuel Ikome Sako
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Soar (platform)
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Soar was founded in 2017 after the defence and security applications behind the platform were released for civilian use. Soar was publicly launched in August 2019.
Soar allows users to select an area of interest (AOI) where they can view and download near real-time ESA Sentinel-2 and NASA Landsat-8 satellite imagery. Smartphone users accessing Soar online are additionally able to view imagery from NASA MODIS and JMA Himawari-8.
In October 2019 Soar announced a partnership with China’s state-owned satellite imaging company, China Siwei Surveying and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd – thereby enabling their enterprise customers to order imagery from SuperView-1 at 50cm per pixel resolution with fast turn-around times.
Drone pilots have the functionality to upload and monetize their mapping content, providing both the pilot with a fixed commission whilst at the same time seeding Soar's 'super-map' with additional data.
Soar stores drone imagery metadata—including location, altitude, time, and equipment used—on a public blockchain.
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Jimmy Nail
James Michael Aloysius Bradford (born 16 March 1954), known as Jimmy Nail, is an English singer-songwriter, actor, film producer, and television writer. He is known for his role as Leonard "Oz" Osborne in the hit television show "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", his title role in "Spender", and his 1992 number one single, "Ain't No Doubt".
James Michael Aloysius Bradford was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. His father is called Jimmy and his mother is Laura. His father was a shipyard worker, an amateur boxer, and professional footballer. His sister, Shelagh, died aged 20 when he was 13. He later spent time drinking and fighting. He was involved in a fight after a football match and was sent to prison. After being released he worked in a glass factory. While opening a crate of glass he stood on a six-inch spike that went through his foot. After this he was called "Nail". He later used "Nail' as his professional surname. At that time he played guitar in a rock band called the King Crabs. His sister, Val McLane, was a successful actress and later became Head of Drama at Sunderland University.
Nail's partner, Miriam, encouraged him to audition for a television show even though he had no experience as an actor. He won the role of Leonard Jeffrey "Oz" Osborne in "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", an ITV comedy drama about construction workers working abroad in Germany. The show made him famous.
After the first two series of "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet", Nail created the detective series "Spender". He co-wrote it with Ian La Frenais. The show ran for three series from 1990 to 1993.
In 1994, Nail created, wrote and starred as songwriter Jed Shepherd in the TV series "Crocodile Shoes".
In 2000 he began work on reviving the "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" series, this time for the BBC. It was filmed in Middlesbrough and Arizona in 2001. It was shown on TV in 2002 and had 13 million viewers. Another series saw the brickies in Cuba. The final two-hour instalment was set in Laos. It was shown on Christmas 2004 snd had seven million viewers.
In 2008, Nail created and starred as Phil Parker in "Parents of the Band". The series was shown on BBC1. It revolves around a group of teenagers who form a band just for their own fun, but their parents expect them to be the next Led Zeppelin. Ratings were disappointing, around three million, and there was no second series.
Nail had pop hits with
His 1992 album "Growing Up in Public" featured Gary Moore, David Gilmour, Elliot Randall and George Harrison.