CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Gyles gives us Austen literary tour to write home about

In Jane Austen’s Footsteps With Gyles Brandreth  Rating: This Is My House  Rating: Life wasn’t so different a couple of hundred years ago. Sunseekers rushed to the beach on the first warm day in spring — and because bathing costumes hadn’t been invented, they all went skinny-dipping. There were riots on the streets of Bristol, … Read more

Gyles Brandreth reveals he accidentally BROKE his wife Michele’s wrist

Gyles Brandreth has revealed he accidentally broke his wife Michele’s wrist while they went stargazing on Monday. The writer, 72, informed his followers on Twitter about the unfortunate accident, which saw him trip over a tree root and collide into his other half, who then fell onto the pavement and broke her wrist. Sharing a … Read more

WHAT BOOK would writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth take to a desert island?

WHAT BOOK would writer and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth take to a desert island? Gyles Brandreth is currently reading Word Perfect by lexicographer Susie Dent He would take the diaries of Samuel Pepys to a desert island Broadcaster said James Joyce’s final masterpiece Finnegans Wake, left him cold By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 GMT, 29 October 2020 | … Read more