Have you heard the story about the day Dickie Bird was invited to lunch with the Queen? Or the one about Brian Johnston when he joined the Grenadier Guards? Here is a non-stop feast of jokes, anecdotes and stories from five of Britain’s best-known storytellers and raconteurs - Brian Johnston, Dickie Bird, Jon Pertwee, Brian Blessed and Ned Sherrin. There are dozens of hilarious stories about their personal experiences and behind the scenes in radio and television, theatre...
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man. A half-starved young Russian man in a...