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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  ROBERT WALCH
Not at all, says novelist Gyles Brandreth, who claims that the three men, all contemporaries, could have known one another.
In this first of a planned trilogy of mysteries, Brandreth has Wilde stumble upon a rather ghastly murder involving an adolescent male model who was an acquaintance of the famed writer.
Brandreth doesn't duck the issues that resulted in the charge and conviction, but since this novel unfolds before the events leading up to the court case, there is no direct allusion to it.
www.iloveamysterynewsletter.com /robert_walch.htm   (1878 words)

  
  The Monday interview: Gyles Brandreth | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Gyles Brandreth, TV:am survivor, teddy-bear enthusiast, and former patron of Lesbians for a Conservative Victory, is a ladies' man. Men, I suspect, don't warm to him because he personifies all they fear turning into - a fruity, risible, name-dropping, middlebrow dilettante.
Brandreth is very bright but one suspects that he suffers from agreeing too much with the last person he talked to.
Brandreth, as Dr Frank N Furter, stands in front of the rest of the cast, jerking his hips in a fashion that deviates markedly from the more rhythmically attuned behind him.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,772905,00.html   (1942 words)

  
 Gyles Brandreth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born March 8, 1948 at a British Forces Hospital in Germany).
Brandreth is best-known for his appearances on Countdown and TV AM.
In September 2004, Brandreth's book on the marriage of Queen Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh was published.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gyles_Brandreth   (588 words)

  
 Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, 1992-97 - Gyles Brandreth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gyles Brandreth's account of his five years in Parliament, and of his time as a Whip in the dying days of the Major Government, enjoyably trash that convention to give a memorable and entertaining account of days of drift and uncertainty.
Brandreth has a good ear, and a sense of his own absurdity; he was placed to see disorganisation and disloyalty from close at hand, and is touching in his admiration for Major himself, whom he sees as a nice and able man with an impossible task.
Gyles Brandreth's (he of odd jumpers and word games) account of how he came to be elected and serve as a Member of Parliament.
clanbrandon.co.uk /book-shop/...+gyles+brandreth_0297643118.html   (1391 words)

  
 Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage - Gyles Brandreth
Brandreth's description of Elizabeth pulling King George V by his beard as they played "horse and groom" is priceless, as well as his getting down on all fours to play with her.
Gyles Brandreth claimes to know the real Philip and Elizabeth, Well this book just shows one what an ego trip these so called royal insiders are on.
Brandreth clearly has had access to Philip and Elizabeth, (though there is perhaps a touch more reference to Philip than Elizabeth) and a number of family and friends.
clanbrandon.co.uk /book-shop/philip+...+gyles+brandreth_0099446731.html   (1277 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | The Westminster Hour | The Brandreth Rules
Gyles Brandreth has some witty and illuminating insights into how to scale the Westminster ladders while avoiding being bitten by the snakes.
Gyles Brandreth became the Conservative MP for Chester in 1992 and three years later became a junior member of John Major's government.
In Part Four, Gyles Brandreth explained how politicians should cope with political scandal - whether it's a moment of madness on Clapham Common, a torrid affair with a prime minister to be or a pinch of perjury in a libel trial.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/the_westminster_hour/2317053.stm   (717 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Philip and Elizabeth: Books: Gyles Brandreth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brandreth goes to great and mostly convincing lengths to disprove rumors of the Prince's extramarital affairs and the queen's tendency to lavish more affection on her corgis and horses than on her family.
Brandreth also includes some of Prince Philip's own remarks and comments on the text (evidently The Duke read the manuscript well before publication), which adds an additional sparkle and means that this book is probably the closest we will ever get to an autobiography by The Prince himself.
Brandreth has given us a picture of a nice couple who have soldiered on through numerous public and private storms,dutiful to their country and loving and protective of each other.
www.amazon.com /Philip-Elizabeth-Gyles-Brandreth/dp/0712661034   (2069 words)

  
 Association of British Scrabble Players - Profiles
Gyles Brandreth's varied career has ranged from playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella to being a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major's government.
Known for the colourful jumpers he wore on countless game shows and on TV-am in the 1970s and 1980s, he became the MP for the City of Chester in 1992.
He is a keen supporter of the ABSP and its activites and has been a special guest at many major Scrabble events over the last 30 years.
www.absp.org.uk /profiles/gyles.html   (309 words)

  
 The Big Interview: Gyles Brandreth | Official London Theatre Guide
Brandreth has, he confesses, wanted to be involved with a musical for approximately 29 years, and first thought of the pocket musical while he was running the Oxford Theatre Festival in the 1970’s.
Brandreth’s conscious assault on viewers with gaudy knitwear betrays the informed wiliness which has allowed him to succeed in so many areas.
Brandreth’s skill at keeping his private life just that was reflected in the fact that, unusually for a Tory MP, his political career was utterly devoid of scandal or sleeze.
www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /news/biginterview/display?contentId=73812   (1485 words)

  
 Observer review: Philip and Elizabeth by Gyles Brandreth and Princesses by Flora Fraser | Review | The Observer
Gyles Brandreth's account of the Queen's marriage, Philip and Elizabeth, is ludicrously lubricious, while Flora Fraser's account of George III daughters, Princesses, shows that the royal family is little changed
Brandreth even seems to have been sexually stimulated by proximity to the starchy monarch, and once ineptly flirted with her at a Buckingham Palace reception.
His performance as a self-appointed equerry-in-waiting that day at the hospice suggests that he'd be a dab hand with a loo brush and would keep their porcelain throne pristine.
observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1307673,00.html   (899 words)

  
 Scotsman.com Living - Pulling the wool over our eyes
The popular notion is that Brandreth is merely a jack of all trades, but actually he is the master of quite a few.
Brandreth jokes a lot about being egocentric, and says the trouble with interviews is that you talk so much about yourself, but actually I think he uses this as a smokescreen.
Brandreth is whispering, recreating Tutu's accent, his emphasis, the tension of what he said, with its pregnant pauses.
living.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1701992005   (2667 words)

  
 JAMGBrandreth,MMcErlaneFMacAulay,NRevell
We have a multitalented and ubiquitous Gyles Brandreth.
NP: So Gyles Brandreth got points in the round, including one for speaking as the whistle went, and has increased his lead over Fred MacAulay and Nick Revell, who are almost equal in second place, and Maria McErlane is only one point behind them.
Gyles you had hesitation and you have 22, you had a challenge of hesitation and you have 22 seconds, making ends meet starting now.
deanbedford.tripod.com /jam530.html   (4354 words)

  
 JAM:KWilliams,DNimmo,SHancock,GBrandreth
It was Sheila Hancock, she has two at the end of the round, Kenneth Williams has four, Gyles Brandreth and Derek Nimmo have yet to score...
Derek Nimmo and Gyles Brandreth are equal in the lead, one point ahead of Sheila Hancock, and two points ahead of Kenneth Williams.
NP: Gyles Brandreth and Derek Nimmo are still in the lead, together at the end of that round.
deanbedford.tripod.com /jam533.html   (4259 words)

  
 TIME Europe Magazine: And Now for His Next Act -- Feb. 10, 2003 Vol. 161, No. 6   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 1997 Labour landslide cost Brandreth his Tory seat in the House of Commons, and his relieved wife fondly imagined she had reclaimed him from the high-maintenance mistress that is Parliament.
Brandreth returned to television, where he had earlier made a name for himself, but a stint as a campaign reporter during the 2001 election triggered a second crisis.
This, after all, is the man who once sought to beat the world record for a live, televised kiss — an attempt aborted when the TV channel cut away to cover Leonid Brezhnev's funeral.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,418546,00.html   (771 words)

  
 After dinner speaker Gyles Brandreth
Gyles is also a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, whose Patron is the Prince of Wales, and a former chairman and now vice-president of the National Playing Fields Association, whose Patron is the Queen and whose President is the Duke of Edinburgh.
Gyles' colourful forebears include George R Sims (who was the highest-paid journalist of his day and who wrote the ballad Christmas Day in the Workhouse) as well as Jeremiah Brandreth (the last man in England to be beheaded for treason).
A fascinating read in which Brandreth discusses his time at Westminster, from finding a seat, the general election and his arrival as a "new boy", to his duties as a Tory Whip in a time when the Tory majority was steadily declining.
www.nyt.co.uk /gylesbrandreth.htm   (732 words)

  
 Zipp! Meet the Cast
Gyles Brandreth – recently the subject of BBC TV’s tribute show, This Is Your Life – has three children and five cats.
Gyles Brandreth is quintessentially British – though his great-great-grandfather was a New Yorker, a friend of PT Barnum and Gordon Bennett, and a member of the New York senate.
Brandreth’s English forebears include Jeremiah Brandreth, the last person to be beheaded in England for treason.
www.zippthemusical.com /cast.html   (828 words)

  
 Charles & Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair by Gyles Brandreth - book2book forums
Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince Philip, is to write the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary love stories of our time in a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one ‘non-negotiable’ love of his life, Camilla Shand.
This is a family saga like no other, told with unrivalled authority and insight by a writer who has met all the characters in the drama: Charles, Camilla, Diana, their children, their families and their friends.
Ed Victor said “Gyles Brandreth has proved to the book trade that he can deliver the goods about royal marriages with his matchless Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage.
forums.booktrade.info /showthread.php?t=189   (453 words)

  
 Gyles Brandreth - UKGameshows
Author, raconteur, MP, arctophile and sartorial disaster zone: at one time or another, Gyles Brandreth has been all of these things and more.
When Countdown celebrated its 2000th episode in 1997, Gyles was one of the guests on a special retrospective programme, and they surprised him by arranging for some of the jumpers' new owners to sit in the studio audience, wearing the garments in question.
He was born in a British Military Hospital in Wuppertal in the German Federal Republic in 1948.
www.ukgameshows.com /page/index.php/Gyles_Brandreth   (429 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage: Books: Gyles Brandreth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For almost sixty years theirs have been among the most famous faces in the world—yet the personalities behind the image remain elusive and the nature of their marriage is an enigma.
Gyles Brandreth has met all the principal players in the story; he quotes no anonymous sources; he has known the Duke of Edinburgh for twenty-five years and has interviewed him.
This is a unique and revealing portrait of a remarkable partnership, told with candor and authority, and illustrated with Prince Philip's family photographs and pictures from the Queen's royal collection.
www.amazon.com /Philip-Elizabeth-Portrait-Royal-Marriage/dp/0393061132   (2187 words)

  
 Just A Minute television season 4 1999
JAM regular of the past Wendy Richard led the cast with newcomer Linda Smith backed by Peter Jones, Tony Hawks and Gyles Brandreth, but overall there was a feeling that too many inexperienced and not very articulate people had been employed.
Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 537th appearance, Gyles Brandreth's 11th appearance and first television appearance, Linda Smith's 3rd appearance and first television appearance, Isla Blair's first appearance, Gary Wilmot's first appearance.
Notes: Nicholas Parsons's 554th appearance and last television appearance, Gyles Brandreth's 16th appearance and last television appearance, Liza Goddard's 7th and last appearance, Richard Morton's 2nd and last appearance, Ken Bruce's 2nd and last appearance, Helena Taylor's last show as producer.
www.geocities.com /deanbedford/jamtv4.html   (1285 words)

  
 Speakers Corner - Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella to being a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government.
Gyles spoke at the BPMA's Annual lunch in December 2005
Simon Singh is an author, journalist and TV producer who specialises in science and mathematics and opens up a fascinating world to anyone who hears him speak.
www.speakerscorner.co.uk /speaker/418/gyles--brandreth.html   (578 words)

  
 The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gyles Brandreth — actor, author, broadcaster, former MP, government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury - is one of
A former Oxford Scholar and President of the Oxford Union, Gyles Brandreth’s career has ranged from being a whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in
Known for the colourful jumpers he wore on countless game shows and on TV-am in the 1970s and 1980s, Gyles Brandreth became the MP for the City of
www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/GylesBrandreth.htm   (459 words)

  
 Zipp!, a CurtainUp London review
What Brandreth has compiled here is an extension of that idea in a claim to cover 100 musicals in 90 minutes, including the complete works of Andrew Lloyd Webber in sixty seconds.
While Brandreth describes his own singing voice as a cross between that of Rex Harrison and Kermit the Frog, he is thankfully supported by four very fine singers.
The major part of the evening has an electronic news ticker giving the year and the title of the musical the song is from, but slightly delayed so that quiz buffs have time to guess first.
www.curtainup.com /zipp.html   (771 words)

  
 Hire Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Gyles Brandreth and Stephen Sackur
Gyles Brandreth's varied career has ranged from playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella (with Bonnie Langford, Barbara Windsor and Brian Conley) to being a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major's Government.
Gyles Brandreth, a former Chairman and now Vice-President of the National Playing Fields association, is married to writer and publisher Michele Brown.
They have three children and are the co-curators of the National Portrait Gallery's celebration of children's writers now touring the UK and co-founders of the award-winning Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon.
www.f4group.co.uk /month_10_2002.htm   (1032 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, 1992-97: Books: Gyles Brandreth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
by Gyles Brandreth (Author) "I spoke, not very well, at the London Playing Fields Society Centenary Dinner at the Savoy..." (more)
For reasons which he doesn't make very clear he chose - and this wasn't an easy thing to accomplish - to become a conservative MP in the stormy final years of John Major's administration.
Though the book is mostly lighthearted, there are some touching undertones - such as Mr Brandreth's tributes to his wife and his response to the illness and death of close friends.
amazon.co.uk /Breaking-Code-Westminster-Diaries-1992-97/dp/0297643118   (1602 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Great Party Games: Over 200 Games for Adults of All Ages: Books: Gyles Brandreth   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Gyles Brandreth has all of the attributes necessary for the creation of this book - he is quite mad!
Aside from his madness, he is a collector of fine and intelligent ideas that will enrich any party.
This is more than just a cut-and-paste volume, it has been well written to point out the pitfalls that may lie ahead and sensibly suggests the amount of alcohol necessary for the successful conclusion of particular games.
www.amazon.co.uk /Great-Party-Games-Adults-Ages/dp/0860516725   (331 words)

  
 Gyles Brandreth, Book Guest Speaker Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Brandreths career has ranged from Pantomime to being Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Majors government.
In 1997,he returned to a career in writing and broadcasting and can currently be heard on LBC's Sunday evening arts programme Sunday with Gyles Brandreth.
Find out how to book Gyles Brandreth for your next event by calling TMC Speak Out on 0131 654 1000 or clicking here.
tmcentertainment.co.uk /speaker-index.html?speakerid=91&...   (240 words)

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