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born 1948 England
Gyles Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is a British author, broadcaster and a former Conservative Member of Parliament for the City of Chester (1992–1997). He appears frequently on BBC Radio 4 panel games such as The News Quiz and Just a Minute.
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If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".
I had to pull about twenty pieces of broken glass out of my hand using tweezers and antiseptic cream. I'm never going to have a game of arm wrestling with Michael Howard again.
In my wife's view, there is too much clutter. She has declared that the moment I die, she has the local skip company on rapid dial and everything will go.
We are very happy to be here. Can I say that as well? This is a happy place to work. I enjoy coming in here and have done since I began coming in.
One of the interesting things about writing a play is that when you've finished it you have to give it away.
WhatsonStage interview (2010)
I get to my desk at eight in the morning and I leave it at seven in the evening and I just work away. I'm a work machine.
WhatsonStage interview (2010)
I describe what I do on the day that I do it. The nice thing for me is that I do lots of different things on lots of different days.
WhatsonStage interview (2010)
After I lost my seat, Michelle [his wife] said, "Come on, you know when one door closes ... it is shut. What do you want to do now?" And that is when I thought, I want to do a musical.
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