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Between The Covers (TV Programme)
Between the Covers is a BBC talk show hosted by Sara Cox in which Guest appearance, guest stars talk about their favourite books, alongside other book picks as well. Episodes Series One (2020) Sara Cox talks to Guest appearance, guest stars about their favourite books as well as a book of the week pick from 2020 in literature, 2020, and a book written by one of the guests. These books are: Book of the Week Pick (From 2020) * ''The Midnight Library'' by Matt Haig * ''Love After Love'' by Ingrid Persaud *''Fifty-Fifty'' by Steve Cavanagh *''This Lovely City'' by Louise Hare *''Small Pleasures'' by Clare Chambers (novelist), Clare Chambers *''Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold'' by Bolu Babalola *''The Devil and the Dark Water'' by Stuart Turton Book Written By a Guest * ''Sex Power Money'' (2019 in literature, 2019) by Sara Pascoe * ''The Thursday Murder Club'' (2020 in literature, 2020) by Richard Osman *''Love and Other Thought Experiments'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Cox
Sara Joanne Cyzer (née Cox; born 13 December 1974) is an English broadcaster. She presented ''Radio 1 Breakfast'' on BBC Radio 1 from 3 April 2000 until 19 December 2003. Since January 2019 she now hosts the BBC Radio 2 drivetime show, Monday–Friday 4pm–7pm. She has also presented a number of television shows for the BBC including '' The Great Pottery Throw Down'' (2015–2017), ''Too Much TV'' (2016) and '' Back in Time for...'' (2018–present). Early life and career Cox was born Sarah Joanne Cox on 13 December 1974, but later dropped the use of the letter 'h' from her first name.England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837–1983 Ancestry.co.uk. Retrieved 21 June 2007. Her parents lived in the village of |
The Devil And The Dark Water
''The Devil and the Dark Water'' is a 2020 genre-bending novel by Stuart Turton, combining elements of historical fiction, murder mystery, and horror. Set in 1634, it features a detective trying to solve a series of inexplicable crimes aboard an East Indiaman ship. Plot In 1634, investigator Samuel Pipps of the Dutch East India Company is arrested in Batavia. Pipps and his sidekick Arent Hayes are set to be transported back to Amsterdam aboard the ''Saardam''. Other members of the voyage include governor-general Jan Haan, his wife Sara, his mistress Creesjie, Predikant Sander Kers, and several nobles. Arent Hayes is Haan’s nephew. Sara plans to leave her abusive husband upon reaching Amsterdam. As they are all boarding the ship, a leper prophesies that the ship won’t reach its destination. The leper then bursts into flames. As a child, Arent and his father went into the woods to hunt. Arent’s father disappeared and Arent was found with a strange symbol carved into his ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Norton
Graham William Walker (born 4 April 1963), better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish actor, author, comedian, commentator, and presenter. Well known for his work in the UK, he is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show ''The Graham Norton Show'' (2007–present) and an eight-time award-winner overall—he received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance three times for ''So Graham Norton'' (2000 to 2002). Originally shown on BBC Two before moving to other slots on BBC One, his chat show succeeded ''Friday Night with Jonathan Ross'' in BBC One's prestigious late-Friday-evening slot in 2010. From 2010 to 2020, Norton presented the Saturday-morning slot on BBC Radio 2. In 2021, he began presenting on Saturdays and Sundays on Virgin Radio UK. Since 2009, he has served as the BBC's television commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest, which led ''Hot Press'' to describe him as "the 21st century's answer to Terry Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Home Stretch
''Home Stretch'' is the third novel A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ... written by the author, presenter and comedian Graham Norton. Plot In a small village in Ireland in 1987, a car crash occurs which kills three of the six passengers while paralysing another. The novel then follows one of the survivors, Connor, from 1987 to 2019 as well as his wider family through various locations including London, Liverpool, and New York. Promotion The book was promoted on Sara Cox's BBC talk show '' Between The Covers''. References 2020 British novels Hodder & Stoughton books Family saga novels {{2020s-family-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babita Sharma
Babita Sharma (born April 1977) is a British television newsreader on BBC News (TV channel) and BBC World News, presenting the Newsday strand each Monday to Wednesday from London with Rico Hizon in Singapore. Early life and education Sharma is of Indian descent born in 1977 in Reading, Berkshire. She has two older sisters. She lived above a number of corner shops around Reading and Caversham owned by her mother Prem and her father Ved. She attended the University of Wales and graduated with a degree in journalism, Film and Broadcasting. Career After completing her education, Sharma began working with BBC Radio Wales and Thames Valley Television. She moved to Dubai, working on radio for Channel 4 FM and for Ajman TV where she presented a weekly music programme. She returned to the UK in 2003 and began her BBC career at BBC Radio Berkshire as a travel presenter and producer. She then moved to the newsroom in Southampton, reporting and producing for BBC South Today. In 2007 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies
Alan Roger Davies (; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter. He is best known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series ''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–2016) and as the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show '' QI'' since its premiere in 2003, outlasting its original host Stephen Fry. Early life Davies was born in Loughton, Essex, and spent his childhood years in Chingford. When Davies was six his mother died from leukaemia and he was raised by his father. He was sexually abused by his father from age 8 to 13, as described in his book ''Just Ignore Him''. Davies wrote that his brother and sister were turned against him. Davies identified this as making him strongly want to please others, which led him to shoplift for schoolmates, and play the joker at home. Davies attended Staples Road School in Loughton and was privately educated at the independent Bancroft's School in Woodford Green, where he gained eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Ignore Him
''Just Ignore Him'' is a 2020 memoir by the British comedian Alan Davies, detailing his early childhood. Background Alan Davies is a British comedian, known for his acting in ''Jonathan Creek'' and permanent role on the panel show '' QI''. ''Just Ignore Him'' was his second book, following ''My Favourite People And Me, 1978–88'' (2009), which was republished as ''Teenage Revolution''. Davies later said of his first book that "all the things that mattered were missing". Davies worked on ''Just Ignore Him'' while pursuing a part-time MA in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. He began the MA course in 2016, initially writing short stories about his life in the third person. At the end of his first year, he submitted for assessment a passage of writing which later became the chapter "Hands", with few changes needed. Davies expressed an interest in writing a stand-up show about the material covered in the book. Davies consulted with friends about his plan for the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Young
William Robert Young (born 20 January 1979) is a British singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominence after winning the 2002 Pop Idol (series 1), inaugural series of the ITV (TV network), ITV talent contest ''Pop Idol'', making him the first winner of the worldwide ''Idol series, Idol'' franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible (Will Young song), Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen (Westlife song)#Will Young version, Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in ''World Idol'' performing the single "Light My Fire" written by the band the Doors. As a teenager, Young studied politics at the University of Exeter before moving to London, where he studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick. Young put his studies on hold in late 2001 to become a contestant on ''Pop Idol''. After winning the competition the following year, he releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Ward
Sophie Anna Ward (born 1964) is an English stage and screen actress, and a writer of non-fiction and fiction. As an actress, she played Elizabeth Hardy, the female lead in Barry Levinson's ''Young Sherlock Holmes'' (1985), and in other feature film roles including in Cary Joji Fukunaga's period drama ''Jane Eyre'' (2011), and Jane Sanger's horror feature, ''Swiperight'' (2020). In 1982 she had a role in the Academy Award-winning best short film, ''A Shocking Accident''. On television she played Dr Helen Trent in British police drama series ''Heartbeat'' from 2004 to 2006, the character Sophia Byrne in the series ''Holby City'' from 2008 to 2010, the role of Lady Ellen Hoxley in the series ''Land Girls'' from 2009 to 2011, and that of Lady Verinder in the mini-series ''The Moonstone'' (2016). She has had a variety of other roles on stage and in short and feature films. Ward returned to higher education, earning a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019, in English ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Osman
Richard Thomas Osman (born 28 November 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, novelist and comedian. He is the creator and former co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show ''Pointless''. He has presented the BBC Two quiz shows ''Two Tribes'' and ''Richard Osman's House of Games'' and served as a team captain on the comedy panel shows ''Insert Name Here'' and '' The Fake News Show''. He has made appearances on many British panel shows. Osman worked at Hat Trick Productions alongside Ben Smith before becoming creative director of the television production company Endemol UK, producing shows including '' Prize Island'' for ITV and ''Deal or No Deal'' for Channel 4. He is the author of the crime novels ''The Thursday Murder Club'' (2020), '' The Man Who Died Twice'' (2021) and ''The Bullet That Missed'' (2022). Early life Richard Thomas Osman was born on 28 November 1970 in Billericay, Essex, to Brenda Wright and David Osman, and grew up in Cuckfield near Hayw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thursday Murder Club
''The Thursday Murder Club'' is the debut novel by ''Pointless'' and ''House of Games'' presenter Richard Osman. It was published on 3 September 2020 by Viking Press, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. Plot A group of pensioners (Elizabeth Best; Ron Ritchie; Joyce Meadowcroft; and Ibrahim Arif) set about solving the mystery of the murder of a property developer in the luxurious Cooper's Chase retirement village near the fictitious village of Fairhaven in Kent. Publication Osman's inspiration for the book came from a visit he made to an upmarket retirement village. He wrote the book over 18 months in secret. After a 10-way publishing auction, Penguin Random House acquired the rights to ''The Thursday Murder Club'' and its sequel '' The Man Who Died Twice'' for a seven-figure sum in 2019. The book was published on 3 September 2020. It sold 45,000 copies in its first three days on sale and became a ''Sunday Times'' number one bestseller. As of 8 September, it had been sold in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Pascoe
Sara Patricia Pascoe (born 22 May 1981) is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has appeared on television programmes including ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown'' for Channel 4, '' QI'' for BBC and '' Taskmaster'' for the digital channel Dave. Early life Pascoe was born to Gail (''née'' Newmarch) and Derek Pascoe, a musician. Her great-grandmother was Rosa Newmarch, a poet and writer on music. Born in Dagenham, London, Pascoe was brought up in nearby Romford. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was brought up by her mother. She attended Eastbury Comprehensive School in Barking. She later attended Gaynes School in Upminster. Aged 16, Pascoe had an abortion which was detailed in her memoir, ''Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body.'' For a short while, Pascoe aspired to study philosophy at the University of Cambridge, motivated by both her enjoyment of the novel ''Sophie's World'' and her desire to join Footlights, the university's dramatic club. Howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
