Gyles Brandreth
What’s your favourite children’s novel?
J.K. Rowling Poignant, funny and genuinely scary, The Hundred and One Dalmatians was one of my favourite books as a…
Lamb to the slaughter
The Slightly Foxed podcast, like the quarterly and old bookshop of the same name, is almost muskily lovely. It’s the…
Keeping it in the family
A new orthodoxy governs the casting process in Hollywood. An actor’s ethnicity must match the character’s. If you extend this…
Diary
There was a cloud over the ‘Oldie of the Year’ awards luncheon this week, which was the death only a…
Diary
An excellent test of character is a person’s response to being offered an Oldie of the Year Award. There have…
