Edwina Currie

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Portrait of psychiatrist and television personality Anthony Clare, July 1989. Photograph: Richard Farley/Radio Times/Getty
When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile

In August 1996, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an interview with Uri Geller, the Israeli magician, psychic and spoon-bending illusionist. Geller had done thous(...)

Miriam O’Callaghan shows that for all her famed one-on-one interviewing skills, she’s in her element hosting current affairs conversations.
No laughing matter as Miriam O'Callaghan gets the balance right

A politician, a journalist and an academic walk into a room. To most people, this may sound like the opening line of a bad joke, but Miriam O’Callagha(...)

Liveline host Joe Duffy’s investigative skills make for interesting listening
Has Joe Duffy ever considered becoming a private detective?

Has Joe Duffy ever considered becoming a private detective? This isn’t meant as a sly hint, à la managers suggesting employees seek new opportunities (...)

Joe Duffy could have added that two of Farage’s children are entitled to citizenship here through their Irish-born mother Photograph: Alastair Grant
Joe Duffy: ‘If Nigel Farage found an Irish granny he could become an Irish citizen’

After listening to the news that nurses are striking for better pay at the same time that the State is set to build the world’s most expensive materni(...)

Philip Hensher’s novel The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. Photograph: Simon James/PA Wire
Philip Hensher: ‘Don’t aspire to be an author. Just aspire to write a particular book’
  • Books
  • January 16, 2015, 15:03

What was the first book to make an impression on you? The Wizard of Oz, and especially the very weird sequel The Marvelous Land of Oz, where th(...)

The Hollande affair: perhaps a little more ‘Confessions of a Window Cleaner’ than ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’. Photograph: Ian Langsdon/EPA
A contrast in press cultures as Hollande affair leaves French press unmoved

There have, in recent weeks, been few more amusing phenomena than the spectacle of the British media pondering their French counterparts’ attitude to (...)

Mayor Ford makes a statement to the media outside his office at Toronto’s city hall this week. A new video surfaced showing Ford in a rage, using threatening words including “kill” and “murder.” Ford said he was “extremely, extremely inebriated” in the video. Photograph: AP
Toronto’s crack-smoking, hard-drinking mayor seems so, well, unCanadian

Something interesting is happening in the world of Canadian politics. “Oh, when is that not the case?” I hear you reply. Pay attention. This isn’t som(...)