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Gyles Brandreth

May 2024

  • The entertainer Rod Hull with the puppet Emu

    Gyles Brandreth says he blames himself for Rod Hull’s death

    This Morning presenter told his friend not to moan and gave him advice that ultimately proved fatal

December 2023

  • Gyles Brandreth wearing a yellow jumper

    This much I know
    Gyles Brandreth: ‘Never look back. You might fall down the stairs’

    The writer and broadcaster, 75, on keeping busy, meeting TS Eliot and the Queen, and why his wife thinks he’s ridiculous

October 2021

  • Cheltenham Literature Festival 2021<br>CHELTENHAM, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 13: Gyles Brandreth, TV and radio personality, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, on October 13, 2021 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

    Sunday with Gyles Brandreth: ‘Busy people are happy people is my mantra’

  • Queen Elizabeth II

    ‘You are as old as you feel’: Queen declines Oldie of the Year award

April 2020

  • Judi Dench at the Venice film festival in 2017

    Judi Dench lets us in on the secret while remaining a true enigma

    A lengthy 2017 interview, to be streamed online, shows the acting great opening up about her craft and sharing priceless memories

July 2019

  • A guest Inspector faces the cast of Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] at Park Theatre. The Inspector role is played by a different celebrity every night.

    Whodunnit (Unrehearsed) review – secret celeb shines in murder mystery

    A quick-witted Gyles Brandreth, one of 22 stars in action during the run, sleuthed stylishly in this fundraising spoof

October 2018

  • Author and former British Member of Parliament Gyles Brandreth looks at 'Growler,' a Steiff rod-bear circa 1904 at Christies auction house in central London, 30 August 2006. Brandreth is the founder and owner of the world's oldest Teddy Bear Museum, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, in England, and is selling the collection of over 1,000 bears and the museum as a going concern. The collection also includes 'Paddington Bear' from the original series and the original 'Fozzie Bear' from The Muppet Show. AFP PHOTO / JOHN D MCHUGH (Photo credit should read JOHN D MCHUGH/AFP/Getty Images)

    Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth review – good grammar, with jokes

    The former Conservative MP has written an entertaining guide to how to write properly, with an anecdote about the Queen’s loo breaks thrown in

August 2017

  • Sarah Tisdall

    Other lives
    Sarah Tisdall obituary

  • Cartoonist and author Martin Rowson

    David Hepworth on radio
    This week’s best radio: political portraits and on-the-ball podcasts

November 2014

  • Funeral Of Lynda Bellingham

    Lynda Bellingham funeral: a day of sadness and celebration to say goodbye

    Famous faces joined with family members at the service to celebrate the life of the ‘nation’s favourite mum’

November 2013

  • Gyles Brandreth

    Fun and games with Gyles Brandreth

    Gyles Brandreth and his daughter Saethryd are on a mission of fun – to bring back traditional games everyone can play. Interview by Stuart Jeffries

October 2013

  • Simon Hoggart

    Simon Hoggart's week
    Simon Hoggart's week: the honour of being loathed

    Simon Hoggart
  • Mae West, 1954

    Jane Austen tops humour league for Oxford dictionary compiler

August 2013

  • Digested read - the seven secrets of happiness

    Digested read
    The Seven Secrets of Happiness by Gyles Brandreth

    John Crace reduces all that Gyles Brandreth can teach us about happiness to around 700 words

December 2009

  • Radio review
    Brandreth's Pills

    Gyles Brandreth can be a hard listen, but he found the right tone for once in this lively family yarn, says Elisabeth Mahoney

November 2009

  • Critical eye
    Something Sensational to Read in the Train by Gyles Brandreth and Telling Tales by Melissa Katsoulis

    Critical eye on Gyles Brandreth and Melissa Katsoulis

September 2009

  • Jeremy Paxman, Bill Nighy and Gyles Brandreth

    What's your guilty pleasure?

    Gyles Brandreth takes delight in the death of his friends, according to a new book. Becky Barnicoat wants to hear about your secret sources of joy

March 2009

  • Politics blog
    Clark and Brandreth's four rules for a great political diary

    Andrew Sparrow: Tips from two of Westminster's best memoirists

February 2006

  • How to be a better whip

    Gyles Brandreth
    Gyles Brandreth: The government's defeat on the religious hatred bill is a disaster for the government chief whip Hilary Armstrong, and if I were her I would now be on a mixture of beta-blockers and Prozac.

September 2005

  • The seven golden rules of after-dinner speaking (are you listening, John Humphrys?)

    Gyles Brandreth holds the record for the longest after-dinner speech, and has entertained audiences all over the world. In the wake of John Humphrys' alleged postprandial faux pas, Laura Barton asked the former MP to share his wisdom on the subject - without referring to notes, of course.

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