question: Who was born first, Dennis Potter or Daniil Kharms?
answer: Daniil Kharms
context: Title: Follow the Yellow Brick Road
  Passage: Follow the Yellow Brick Road is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast in 1972 as part of BBC Two's "The Sextet" series of eight plays featuring the same six actors.  The play's central theme is of popular culture becoming the inheritor of religious scripture, which anticipated Potter's later serial "Pennies from Heaven" (1978).  The play's title is taken from the song used in "The Wizard of Oz", another version of which features in the incidental music.
  Title: Casanova (1971 TV serial)
  Passage: Casanova is a British television drama serial, written by television playwright Dennis Potter.  Directed by Mark Cullingham and John Glenister, the serial was made by the BBC and screened on the BBC2 network in November and December 1971.  It is loosely based on Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova's "Histoire de ma vie" ("Story of My Life"; 1780–92).  It was Dennis Potter's first television serial, having previously written single plays for the BBC's "The Wednesday Play" and "Play for Today" series.  Frank Finlay starred in the title role and was nominated for the best actor award at the 1972 BAFTA ceremony.
  Title: Lipstick on Your Collar (TV series)
  Passage: Lipstick on Your Collar is a 1993 British television serial written by Dennis Potter.  It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in February and March 1993.  Expanded from Potter's earlier television play "Lay Down Your Arms" (1970), it features Ewan McGregor in his first major role.
  Title: The Nigel Barton Plays
  Passage: The Nigel Barton Plays are two semi-autobiographical television dramas by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 in 1965 as part of "The Wednesday Play" strand.  The first play, "Stand Up, Nigel Barton", follows the eponymous character's journey from his childhood in a small mining community to winning a scholarship for Oxford, while the second play, "Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton", sees him standing for Parliament as the Labour Party candidate in a by-election.  Both plays develop themes and use dramatic devices that became hallmarks of Potter's later plays for television.
  Title: Daniil Kharms
  Passage: Daniil Kharms (Russian: Дании́л Ива́нович Хармс ; 30 December [O.S. 17 December] 1905  – 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist.
  Title: Annex Press
  Passage: ANNEX PRESS is an experimental small press founded in 1973 by Julian Kabza, aka Tod Kabza, writer, publisher, editor, visual artist.  In the 1970s and 80's, Annex published work of new music documentation, conceptual art and texts by French, Russian and American experimental writers: Bob Perelman, Blue Gene Tyranny, Ron Silliman, Rosmarie Waldrop, Alan Davies, Bruce Andrews, Anne Waldman, Alain Veinstein and Yuri Mamleyev, Daniil Kharms (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev), Anne-Marie Albiach, Ascher/Straus, Lyn Hejinian, John Latta, among them.  The Annex magazine edited by Julian Kabza appeared under varying titles; Biscuit (1976), Flora Danica (1976, Terraplane, 1977,and "Writing".  "Annexes", which are single author pamphlets include: Veinstein's "From A Reader's Notebook, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop).  Since the 1990s Annex Press has published in print, electronic, video, sound and film formats.  The annexpress.org website publishes work by Su Freidrich film maker, Tom Mandel, Steve Benson, Julian Kabza, Volodymyr Bilyk, Leanne Bridgewater, Isidore Isou, Anna O'Meara + Ian Tompson, american dancer-choreographer Mark Tompkins, Luc Riolon videographer - film maker, Kit Robinson.
  Title: Dennis Potter
  Passage: Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
  Title: Double Dare (play)
  Passage: Double Dare is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on BBC1 on 6 April 1976 as part of the "Play for Today" series.  The play explores the link between author and viewer, one of Potter's major themes, and is referenced several times in his later work.  The play's title is taken from the 1938 Al Bowlly song "I Double Dare You", which is featured in both the opening and closing credits.
  Title: Moonlight on the Highway
  Passage: Moonlight on the Highway is a television play by Dennis Potter, first broadcast on 12 April 1969 as part of ITV's "Saturday Night Theatre" strand.  The tale of a young Al Bowlly obsessive attempting to blot out memories of sexual abuse via his fixation with the singer, the play was the first of Potter's works to use popular music as a dramatic device and strongly anticipated Potter's later 'serials with songs' "Pennies from Heaven" (1978), "The Singing Detective" (1986) and "Lipstick on Your Collar" (1993).
  Title: Clownery (film)
  Passage: Clownery (Russian: КлоунАда , translit.  "Klounada") is a black-and-white and colour 1989 Soviet idependent film directed by Dmitrii Frolov.  It is based on Daniil Kharms novel "Situations".
citations: Daniil Kharms Dennis Potter