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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
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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
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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. |
