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Michael Ian Grade, Baron Grade of Yarmouth, CBE (born 8 March 1943) is an English television executive and businessman. He has held a number of senior roles in television, including controller of BBC1 (1984–1986), chief executive of Channel 4 (1988–1997), chairman of the board of governors of the BBC (2004–2006), and executive chairman of ITV plc (2007–2009). [1]
In 1966 disgraced British colonel Gerald Scott bequeaths a mysterious letter to his only son, Adam Scott.. The "item in question" that Adam's father's letter leads him to acquire from a safe deposit box in Switzerland is a precious Russian Orthodox icon made long ago for the Russian tsars which by misadventure came into the possession of Hermann Göring sometime in the 1930s.
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) [1] is an English novelist and former politician. [2] He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth (Lincolnshire) from 1969 to 1974, but did not seek re-election after a financial scandal that left him almost bankrupt.
Michael Grade, the foremost candidate to become U.K. regulator Ofcom’s new chair, told the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee that he is “not against the BBC ...
In later editions, titled "The Wine Taster" so as not to be confused with Archer's novel of the same name. Plot: Sefton Hamilton is a rich but unpleasant man, as the narrator (no name is mentioned but he is a writer by profession, as Hamilton calls him "that author johnny" [ 2 ] : p.190 ) learns during a dinner at his friend's place.
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A Quiver Full of Arrows is a 1980 collection of twelve short stories by British writer and politician Jeffrey Archer.. From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression.
Honour Among Thieves (1993) is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer.The book takes place in 1993 with Saddam Hussein planning to retaliate against the United States after the events of the Gulf War.