Edwina Currie
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When Anthony Clare met ‘calculating, disturbing’ Jimmy Savile
- Books
- October 25, 2020, 06:00
In August 1996, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an interview with Uri Geller, the Israeli magician, psychic and spoon-bending illusionist. Geller had done thous(...)

No laughing matter as Miriam O'Callaghan gets the balance right
- TV, Radio, Web
- July 27, 2019, 05:00
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(...)

Has Joe Duffy ever considered becoming a private detective?
- TV, Radio, Web
- June 15, 2019, 05:00
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: ‘If Nigel Farage found an Irish granny he could become an Irish citizen’
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 2, 2019, 05:00
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: ‘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(...)

A contrast in press cultures as Hollande affair leaves French press unmoved
- Europe
- January 18, 2014, 00:01
There have, in recent weeks, been few more amusing phenomena than the spectacle of the British media pondering their French counterparts’ attitude to (...)

Toronto’s crack-smoking, hard-drinking mayor seems so, well, unCanadian
- Politics
- November 9, 2013, 00:01
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(...)