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The cat's out of the Bragg
Melvyn Bragg’s latest book sees the TV and radio broadcaster fictionally
revisiting the darkest period of his life, writes Gerald Isaaman
HE’S a great talker.
On radio you hear his persistent questions and curiosity coming across on a variety of fascinating programmes. ...> more |
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Bond writer's secret service to protect architectural heritage - YOU won’t find it mentioned in the official For Your Eyes Only exhibition at the Imperial War ...>more
Sky's no limit on a mission to the stars - AT the bottom of every email that Anna Young sends out is the phrase: “Why do they say it is wrong that I am reaching for the ...>more
UFOs and identifying flying fists and 'skins' - THE culture clash between hippies, skinheads and black nationalists erupted in Camden Town in 1967. And it was...>more
Treading a path through the moral maze of Arab writing - WRITING this novel left Egyp tian author Man soura Ez-Eldin wracked by doubts. Not just because it was ...>more
Blunt message from Pinter has a sting in tail - I AM Twenty People! edited by Mimi Khilvati and Stephen Knight (Enitharmon £8.95) is the latest Poetry School ...>more
Adoring audience for a dark mind - JODI Picoult is not quite an overnight sensation – she points out that she has been writing for 15 years – but her fame certainly ...>more
Stories behind closed doors - TO many people they are eyesores, signs of a decaying and decrepit city – London at its worst. But for photographer Paul Talling...>more
Hats off to a portrait of the city’s past - THE men all wear hats and stare curiously at the camera, the lens still a novelty on the city streets of the mid-19th century.>more
Colourful life of Red Princess - AS Sofka Zinovieff was mourning the death of her grandmother, she remembered a gift the ageing Russian who she had been ...>more
Parliament’s grand designer - WHILE many have heard of him, few people know exactly who Pugin was and what he did. Rosemary Hill’s book God’s Architect fleshes ...>more
Leaving no Livingstone unturned - THROUGHOUT 1980, Ken Livingstone’s busy assassination squad had me high in their sights. I was, my comrades, ...>more
The shadow boxing Naipaul refuses to pulls any punches - IN his new book, A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling – an unlikely potboiler – Nobel ...>more
Extraordinary true life Deedes of legendary Boot of the Beast - IN the obsessive ego culture of old Fleet Street (and probably new Fleet Street) where fantasy raced ...>more
Did you know? A secret history for the Bard’s birthday - The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the book with which to celebrate the Bard’s birthday this ...>more
The Clerkenwell chronicles - THAT great campaigner for the poor Wat Tyler took his followers to Clerkenwell in 1381, as did the early trade unionists, the Tolpuddle ...>more
A genius that flowered in the trenches- IF the First World War still has a terrible glamour about it, it could be said to lie in its poetry. We have heart-rending work by ...>more
Stellar drinkers of England - FERGUS Linnane has written a sharp, funny and interesting history of this great public pleasure of the English – drinking. We live in joyless...>more
Poetry: ‘Gossip’ and ‘Mismatched shoes’ written by ‘pigs’ - FOR the serious poet, art is anything but therapeutic,” said the Torriano poet Leah Fritz in the poetry ...>more
How they’re sneaking the NHS into private hands - CONFUSE and Conceal is a clear exposition of what is happening to the NHS. > more
Tapping into mind of Sillitoe - MICHAEL Cullen is a womanising criminal, a con man with an eye for an easy score, a strip club enforcer, chauffeur for a gangland... > more
Last Post echoes from the trenches - I REMEMBER as a lad sitting in the pilot’s seat of a shot down Junkers 88 in a field outside the Spitfire station at RAF Wittering... > more
A trove of things that you may not know- THIS is a ragbag of riches of more than 5,500 entries. Here are just to give you a few samples. Did you know The Bell ...>more
Reading the fuzzy line between pornography and eroticism - SEX wasn’t something you talked about in nice Jewish households when I was growing up... > more
Cue for a television phenomenon - I WAS at the 2001 Benson and Hedges Masters snooker final at a packed Wembley Arena. > more
Mystery of little Willie Starchfield - EVERYONE knows about the tragic disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the brutal murder of Milly Dowler... > more
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