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DIANA
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MICHAEL SCHMIDT is a poet, critic, publisher
and teacher of creative writing, who runs the successful
Manchester poetry press Carcanet. Born in Mexico, he is
now one of Britain’s most active ambassadors for poetry.
His recent Harvill Anthology of 20th Century Verse in
English was widely praised, and he is also the
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DIANA COLLECOTT is founding co-director of The
Basil Bunting Poetry Centre at the University of Durham.
A Senior Fulbright Scholar, she has also held research
fellowships at Yale University U.S.A. and Kansai
University, Japan. She has an international reputation
for her work on the poet H. D. She has been a regular
Round Britain Quiz panellist since
1998. |
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POLLY
DEVLIN |
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BRIAN
FEENEY |
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POLLY DEVLIN OBE is a writer and
conservationist. Her first job was as a writer for Vogue
magazine for which she became features editor. She has
also been a columnist for The Sunday Times, The New
Statesman, and The Observer. She has written two
highly-acclaimed autobiographical books, The Far Side
of the Lough and All of Us There and a novel,
Dora. |
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BRIAN FEENEY is a respected historian, a
columnist with the Irish News and co-author of
Lost Lives, the stories of the men, women and
children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland
troubles. |
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PHILIPPA
GREGORY |
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BRIAN J.
FORD |
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PHILIPPA GREGORY’s latest novel is The
Other Boleyn Girl. She is a regular contributor to
newspapers, magazines and radio programmes, and is
perhaps best known as the author of A Respectable
Trade, set in her home town of Bristol, which was
dramatised by the BBC in 1998. |
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BRIAN J. FORD is a scientist and writer who,
in addition to his many books, has contributed entries
on science to the Encyclopaedian Britannica and
the Guinness Book of Records. and television
host. He is a champion of the drive for better public
understanding of science. |
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FRED
HOUSEGO |
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MARCEL
BERLINS |
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FRED HOUSEGO won the BBC Mastermind
title in 1980, when he drove a London taxi cab for a
living. Since then he has built a successful career as a
broadcaster, with regular appearances in quizzes and the
TV series History on Your Doorstep, and as the
host of regular radio phone-ins. He still drives a
cab. |
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MARCEL BERLINS is one of Britain’s most
respected legal journalists. He has presented Radio 4’s
Law in Action since 1988; he writes a regular
legal column for The Guardian, and also devises a
weekly quiz for the same newspaper. |
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PATRICK
HANNAN |
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PETER
STEAD |
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PATRICK HANNAN, journalist, broadcaster and TV
producer, currently presents a daily news programme on
BBC Radio Wales. He is familiar to Radio 4 listeners not
just for Round Britain Quiz but as the host of
programmes such as Tea Junction. He was awarded
an MBE in 1994 for services to
broadcasting. |
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PETER STEAD is a historian and writer,
currently Visiting Professor at the University of
Glamorgan. He has written extensively on Dylan Thomas,
Richard Burton, Welsh rugby and singing, and in addition
to RBQ he has enjoyed his clashes with David
Starkey on Radio 4’s The Moral Maze.
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ALAN TAYLOR |
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MICHAEL
ALEXANDER |
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ALAN TAYLOR is currently writer at large for
the Sunday Herald. His illustrious journalistic career
has included the Managing Editorship of The Scotsman.
His most recent book is The Assassin’s Cloak, an
anthology of extracts from the world’s greatest
diarists. |
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MICHAEL ALEXANDER is Berry Professor of
English Literature at the University of St Andrews. He
is also an author and translator whose most recent book
is A History of English
Literature. |
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