Gyles Brandreth
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Gyles Daubeney Brandreth is a British broadcaster, writer and former politician. He has worked as a television presenter, theatre producer, journalist, author and publisher.
Brandreth in 2022
Brandreth with Judi Dench at the London Palladium in 2023
Brandreth at the Chiswick Book Festival
Brandreth as Chancellor of the University of Chester awarding degrees at the 2017 graduation ceremony in Chester Cathedral
Kenneth Tynan
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Kenneth Peacock Tynan was an English theatre critic and writer. Initially making his mark as a critic at The Observer, he praised John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and encouraged the emerging wave of
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…a contemporaneous publication as "Oxford's Lord High Everything Else". Christopher Hitchens suggested that Brandreth "set out to make himself into a Ken Tynan. Wore a cloak". Brandreth has appeared in the "Dictionary Corner" on the game show Countdown more than 300 times, including Carol Vorderman's final…
Tynan in 1968
The grave of Kenneth Tynan in Holywell Cemetery in 2024