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Anthony Lambton
Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, (10 July 1922 – 30 December 2006), briefly 6th Earl of Durham, styled before 1970 as Viscount Lambton, and widely known as Lord Lambton, was a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Member of Parliament and a cousin of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. Lambton resigned from Parliament and ministerial office in 1973. Biography Lambton was born in Compton, West Sussex, Compton, Sussex, the second son of Diana Mary (née Farquhar) and John Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham. He grew up on the family estates centred on Lambton Castle near Washington, Tyne and Wear, Washington in County Durham, actually living at the nearby Biddick Hall (house), Biddick Hall. He was educated at Harrow School and served in the Hampshire Regiment during the Second World War, before being Disability, invalided out. He then did war work in a Wallsend factory. Marriage and children Lambton married Belind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Dark (TV Programme)
''After Dark'' was a British late-night live television discussion programme broadcast weekly on Channel 4 between 1987 and 1991, and which returned for specials between 1993 and 1997; it was later revived by the BBC for a single season broadcast on BBC Four in 2003. Roly Keating of the BBC described it as "one of the great television talk formats of all time". In 2010 the television trade magazine ''Broadcast'' wrote "''After Dark'' defined the first 10 years of Channel 4, just as '' Big Brother'' did for the second" and in 2018 the programme was cited in an editorial in ''The Times'' as an example of high-quality television. Broadcast live and with no scheduled end time, the series, inspired by an Austrian programme called ''Club 2'', was considered to be a groundbreaking reinvention of the discussion programme format. The programme was hosted by a variety of presenters, and each episode had around half a dozen guests, often including a member of the public. Program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
