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Paul Hoggart (brother) Simon David Hoggart (26 May 1946 – 5 January 2014) was an English journalist and broadcaster. He wrote on politics for The Guardian, and on wine for The Spectator. Until 2006 he presented The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4. [1] His journalism sketches have been published in a series of books.
Hoggart was born in the Potternewton area of Leeds, one of three children in an impoverished family.His father, Tom Longfellow Hoggart (1880–1922), the son of a boilermaker, was a regular infantry soldier and housepainter who died of brucellosis when Hoggart was a year old, and his mother Adeline died of a chest illness when he was eight. [1]
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The News Quiz was created by John Lloyd, [2] based on an idea by Nicholas Parsons. [3]The series was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman in the chair. Subsequently it was chaired by Barry Took from 1979 to 1981, Simon Hoggart from 1981 to 1986, Took again from 1986 to 1995, and then again by Hoggart from 1996 until March 2006. [4]
[61] However, writing after the final episode, Simon Hoggart in The Spectator noted that "There has been some whipped-up controversy about Horrible Histories", adding that "where the books make a rudimentary attempt to teach history as a series of interconnected events, the television show is basically gags, chiefly about defecation, gluttony ...
Amy Hoggart was born 14 April 1986 [1] in Washington, D.C. [2][3] She is the daughter of English journalist and broadcaster Simon Hoggart, who was a correspondent for The Observer in the 1980s. [2][4] She has a brother named Richard, [5] after their grandfather Richard Hoggart, an academic of British culture. Her uncle Paul Hoggart is a TV critic.
Hoggart spent some years as a further education lecturer at Kingsway College and then Woolwich College in London before moving into journalism as a book reviewer, feature writer, television critic, columnist and interviewer particularly for The Times. He also wrote for The Guardian, Observer, The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Radio Times ...
She took her position at The Spectator in 1996. On 24 November 2006, Kimberly Quinn resigned from her post at The Spectator. She has written a series of time travel adventures for young adults; the Chronicles of the Tempus series. The first work, The Queen Must Die (2010) was followed by The Queen at War (2013). [2][3]