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Hastings was born on 6 October 1909 in Camberwell, London, [3] [4] the son of Wilhelmina Harriet (née White) and Basil Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and playwright. [2] Aged seven, he was sent to Stonyhurst , a Jesuit public school which his father and grandfather also attended.
Hastings was born on 20 September 1881 in London, second son of solicitor S. J. Edward Hastings. He was educated at Stonyhurst and King's College London. [2] [3] His nephew- son of his elder brother, Major Lewis Aloysius Macdonald Hastings (1880-1966), a farmer in Southern Rhodesia, where he had been a diamond prospector, political organizer, and served in the Cape Mounted Police- was the ...
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (/ ˈ h eɪ s t ɪ ŋ z /; born 28 December 1945) [1] is a British journalist and military historian, [2] who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which ...
In 1962, Anthea Joseph became deputy chairman of the publishing business. She remarried the following year and had another daughter. Her new husband was Macdonald Hastings and her step-children now included Max Hastings. She became chairman in 1978 of Michael Joseph Ltd. [1]
The scripts were written by journalist Macdonald Hastings who also narrated he series. Other actors who appeared in individual episodes of the series include Petronella Barker, Kenneth Benda, Paddy Joyce, Robert Cawdron, David Swift and Norman Mitchell.
Farrokh Golestan directed, and Orson Welles, who had said of the event "This was no party of the year, it was the celebration of 25 centuries!", [7] agreed to narrate the English text, written by Macdonald Hastings, in return for the Shah's brother-in-law funding Welles's own film, The Other Side of the Wind (which eventually went into ...
Reed Hastings, executive chairman of Netflix, donated $7 million to a super PAC supporting VP Kamala Harris’ presidential election campaign — the largest single campaign contribution the ...
The novel was adapted to a stage play by Hutchinson and Basil Macdonald Hastings. [13] It opened at the Hippodrome in Margate in August 1922, went on tour, then started a West End run at the St James's Theatre in January 1923, running for 53 performances. [14]