Hints and tips:
...Bakewell fronts the Artist of the Year shows with the actor Stephen Mangan, while Bragg’s The South Bank Show was taken on by Sky after its ITV run ended in 2009....
...Three self-satisfied and inane-seeming members of the local golf club, Andy Bragg, Tommy Holroyd and Stephen Mellors, have gone into business “importing” young eastern European and Asian women as sex slaves...
...John Sutherland is author of ‘Stephen Spender: The Authorised Biography’ (Penguin) Photograph: Black Star, courtesy of Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College...
...This idea has attracted left-wing supporters from south of the border: Billy Bragg, John Harris, George Monbiot, Tariq Ali and other writers often found in the Guardian....
...The BBC sent their ‘young Mr Melvyn Bragg’ to review it. Ha ha!” It might be said that she has been hitting the jackpot ever since....
...Sir Mick Jagger, Stephen Hawking, Dame Judy Dench and Simon Cowell are among 200 people who have signed an open letter from an unofficial No campaign urging Scots to vote against independence at next month...
...Guests from the celebrity world included Bianca Jagger, Lord Melvyn Bragg, Eddie Izzard, Janet Street-Porter, author Kathy Lette and actor David Morrissey....
...“During the 1950s and 1960s it becomes a different place,” says Stephens. “Idlewild enters the era of entertainment.”...
...A less pernickety engagement with the KJB texts is ably exemplified by Stephen Prickett in his essay “Language Within Language: King James’ Steamroller”, included in Hamlin and Jones’s collection, The King...
...In the Bagehot lecture that he gave at Queen Mary’s College on Tuesday, the defenestrated presenter of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg, spoke of such a time – sentimentally, but how to avoid sentiment...
...As he shambled up to the lectern, he could perhaps be imagined as a cross between Melvyn Bragg and Mary Warnock....
...Simon Bragg, Oriel chief executive, said the invitation was part of a larger philosophy....
...According to the tailor Stephen Lachter: “Harris tweeds, cheviot and glen checks have been on the up lately, especially with 20- and 30-year-olds....
...Add vocalist Larry Braggs’ constant toasting and all-round showmanship plus world-weary tongue-twisting lyrics and the audience was in the palm of their hand....
...The area has military connections in Fort Bragg and one of the homes for sale – a restored four-bedroom 1930s house priced at $1.5m – was once the winter residence of US General George Marshall....
...“The conundrum facing unions is how they can dispel an old-fashioned image and reinvent themselves,” says Stephen Brooks, of PA Consulting....
...Thursday Bush meets with Stephen Harper, Canada’s PM, are scheduled to meet today....
...Thursday May 5 Dorset Brewing up with Billy Bragg Reporter to Billy Bragg: “Hello Billy, the locals here in Bridport tell me you’re the man to talk to about tonight’s election.”...
...Ever mischievous, Basham appropriated a few lines from a Melvyn Bragg BBC Radio 4 programme in which nuclear physicists discussed the Higgs Boson....
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