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A Long Lunch

Simon Hoggart

A host of memories from Simon Hoggart's forty-plus years in journalism.
Simon reveals what Alan Clark said about Melvyn Bragg what really happened at the Lady Chatterley trial what Cherie Blair said to him and how he riposted as well as the time John Sergeant drove a flight attendant to a fury what happened when he mixed a drink for W. H. Auden and the day Enoch Powell met Bill Haley.
A Long Lunch is often hilarious while also being full of wisdom and insight. Simon has long been regarded as one of our sharpest and wittiest commentators. These memories cover his years in Parliament Northern Ireland around the world and on Radio 4 where for twelve years he chaired the much-loved News Quiz.
From behind the scenes in Parliament roving across America and bizarre meetings in TV studios Simon Hoggart entertains informs and delights.

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  • Classification : Biography & Memoir
  • Pub Date : OCT 1, 2010
  • Imprint : John Murray
  • Page Extent : 320
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781848543973
  • Price : INR 1,799
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Simon Hoggart

Born in 1946 Simon Hoggart is the eldest child of the writer and academic Richard Hoggart. After Cambridge he worked for the Guardian in Northern Ireland Africa and Westminster. He joined the Observer in 1991 as US correspondent based in Washington then returned to the UK to rejoin the political world. From 1996 to 2006 he chaired the News Quiz on Radio 4 and in 2001 became wine correspondent at the Spectator.

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