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Geoffrey Stern
Geoffrey Howard Stern (5 February 1935 - 3 October 2005) was an English academic who was a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE). He was also a radio personality and presented the programmes '' 24 Hours'' and ''Newshour'' on the BBC World Service. An expert in International Communism, he was much in demand on radio and television shows at the deaths of Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko and at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Amongst the books he wrote are "Leaders and Leadership", published in 1993; "Fifty Years of Communism", published in 1967 and "The Structure of International Society", published in 1995. Geoffrey was also a composer and as a teenager he was in fairly regular contact with composer Vaughan Williams. His son is former "Big Brother" contestant Jonty Stern and his daughter is theatre historian Tiffany Stern Tiffany Stern (b. 1968) is a historian and Shakespeare scholar. She is Professor of Shakespeare and Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
24 Hours (radio Programme)
Twenty-four hours is the length of a day. 24 Hours or Twenty Four Hours may also refer to: Film and television * ''24 Hours'' (1931 film), a 1931 drama * ''24 Hours'' (2002 film), a Croatian anthology film * ''24 Hrs'' (film), a 2010 Malayalam language film * ''24 Hours'' (TV programme), a BBC news and current affairs series * ''24Hours'' (TV program), the name of CBWT Winnipeg's local newscast between 1970 and 2000 * "24 Hours" (''ER''), the pilot episode of the medical drama series ''ER'' Music * 24hrs (rapper) (born 1990), American singer and rapper * Twenty Four Hours (band), an Italian rock band * 24Hours (band), a South Korean rock band * ''24 Hrs'' (album), a 2016 album by Olly Murs * ''24 Hours'' (The Kleptones album), 2006 * "24 Hours" (A Boogie wit da Hoodie song), 2021 * "24 Hours" (Agnes song), 2021 * "24 Hours" (Sunmi song), 2013 * "24 Hours" (TeeFlii song), 2014 * ''24 Hours'', a 2008 album by Tom Jones * ''24 Hours'', a 2011 album by Richie Kotzen * "24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newshour
''Newshour'' is BBC World Service's flagship international news and current affairs radio programme, which is broadcast twice daily: weekdays at 1400, weekends at 1300 and nightly at 2100 (UK time). Each edition lasts one hour. It consists of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, international interviews and in-depth reports of world news. The BBC World Service considers it one of their most important programmes. In 2011 it was kept as one of four key outlets, despite severe cutbacks. It is also broadcast in the United States on various American Public Media stations. The programme is broadcast live from Broadcasting House in London. It covers the major news of the day, often interviewing heads of state and government ministers. History The programme was first broadcast in 1988. Presenters Current On weekdays the 14:00 & 21:00 GMT editions are presented by different presenters where as on weekends they are presented by the same presenter Past * Owen Bennett-Jones * C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1982 and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet between 1960 and 1964 and again between 1977 and 1982. His 18-year term as General Secretary was second only to Joseph Stalin's in duration. Brezhnev's tenure as General Secretary remains debated by historians; while his rule was characterised by political stability and significant foreign policy successes, it was also marked by corruption, inefficiency, economic stagnation, and rapidly growing technological gaps with the West. Brezhnev was born to a working-class family in Kamenskoye (now Kamianske, Ukraine) within the Yekaterinoslav Governorate of the Russian Empire. After the results of the October Revolution were finalized with the creation of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev joined t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andropov
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (– 9 February 1984) was the sixth paramount leader of the Soviet Union and the fourth General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After Leonid Brezhnev's 18-year rule, Andropov served in the post from November 1982 until his death in February 1984. Earlier in his career, Andropov served as the Soviet ambassador to Hungary from 1954 to 1957, during which time he was involved in the suppression of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was named chairman of the KGB on 10 May 1967. In this position, he oversaw a massive crackdown on dissent carried out via mass arrests and involuntary psychiatric commitment of people deemed "socially undesirable". After Brezhnev suffered a stroke in 1975 that impaired his ability to govern, Andropov effectively dominated policy-making alongside Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Defense Minister Andrei Grechko and Grechko's successor, Marshal Dmitry Ustinov, for the rest of Brezhnev's rule. Upon Brezhn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chernenko
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko uk, Костянтин Устинович Черненко, translit=Kostiantyn Ustynovych Chernenko (24 September 1911 – 10 March 1985) was a Soviet politician and the seventh General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He briefly led the Soviet Union from 13 February 1984 until his death on 10 March 1985. Born to a poor family from Siberia, Chernenko joined the Komsomol (the Communist Party's youth league) in 1929 and became a full member of the party in 1931. After holding a series of propaganda posts, in 1948 he became the head of the propaganda department in Moldavia, serving under Leonid Brezhnev. After Brezhnev took over as First Secretary of the CPSU in 1964, Chernenko rose to head the General Department of the Central Committee, responsible for setting the agenda for the Politburo and drafting Central Committee decrees. In 1971 Chernenko became a full member of the Central Committee, and in 1978 he was made a full m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social life. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–1908 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music and free it from Teutonic influences. Vaughan Williams is among the best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonty Stern
''Big Brother 2007'', also known as ''Big Brother 8'', was the eighth series of the British reality television series '' Big Brother''. The show followed twenty-three contestants, known as housemates, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom built House. Each week, one or more of the housemates were eliminated from the competition and left the House. The last remaining housemate, Brian Belo, was declared the winner, winning a cash prize of £100,000 (the second housemate to do so after Liam McGough was awarded the same amount in the third week). The series launched on Channel 4 on 30 May 2007 and ended on 31 August 2007, lasting 94 days - the longest British edition of ''Big Brother'' to date. Davina McCall returned as presenter for her eighth consecutive year. Eleven housemates entered on launch night, with an additional seven men being introduced by the time of the fourth week. The series was watched by an average of 3.9 million viewer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiffany Stern
Tiffany Stern (b. 1968) is a historian and Shakespeare scholar. She is Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Biography Stern has a bachelor's degree in English from Merton College, Oxford. She gained her MPhil in 1993 and PhD in 1997, both from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. She was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (1997-2000); a Reader at Oxford Brookes University (2001-5), and then Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor at University College, Oxford, and Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at the University of Oxford (2005–16). After a year as Shakespeare Chair at Royal Holloway, she became Professorial Fellow in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham in 2017. She is general editor of the New Mermaids series with William C. Carroll; Arden Shakespeare: 4 with Peter Holland and Zachary Lesser; and Norton Anthology of Sixteenth Centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Radio Presenters
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
