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Gale Primary Sources: NewsVault: The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991

A G. K. Chesterton (writer) () (academic) (writer) (PM) Martin Amis (writer) (art historian) (naturalist) Arthur C Clarke (sci-fi writer) (PM) (actor, comedian) Jean Cocteau (director) B Alex Comfort (author of Joy of Sex) (PM) Robert Conquest (historian Julian Barnes (writer) (Letters from America) W. H. Auden (poet) Noel Coward (actor) Vernon Bartlett (journalist) (politician) Lord Beaverbrook (publisher) Saul Bellow (author) D (politician) (politician) (playwright) (Scientist) Isaiah (intellectual) (French leader) (poet) Eamon De Valera (Irish PM) Aneurin “Nye” Bevan (politician) Colin Dexter (Writer) William Beveridge (politician) The Dimbleby Brothers (Broadcasters) Maeve Binchy (writer) Alec Douglas-Home (PM) ( and spy) (poet) John Bossy (historian) (cricketer) E William Boyd (writer) Terry Eagleton (Academic) Malcolm Bradbury (writer) Umberto Eco (Writer) (broadcaster) (PM) (historian) Sergei Eisenstein (Director) Benjamin Britten (composer) Geoffrey Elton (Historian) Arthur Bryant (writer) Chou En-Lai (Chinese foreign minister) Alan Bullock (historian) E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Anthropologist) (writer) A.S. Byatt (writer) F Sebastian Faulks (Writer) C (politician, leader of Labour Simon Callow (Actor) Party) David Cannadine (historian) E.M. Forster (writer) John Le Carre (author) Michael Frayn (writer) (politician) (broadcaster and polymath) (PM)

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G L (politician, leader of Labour Cecil Day-Lewis (Poet) Party) Wyndham Lewis (Poet) Ernest Gellner (anthropologist, author of ‘nations and nationalism’) M George (PM) Ramsay Macdonald (PM) (sociologist) (PM) (actor) Daphne Du Maurier (Writer) (pioneering female Spike Milligan (Comic) BBC producer, later head of BBC News) Oswald Mosley (Fascist Leader) Ernst Gombrich (art historian) Malcolm Muggeridge (satirist) (writer and feminist) (writer)

H O (politician) Conor Cruise O’Brien (Irish leader) Dennis Healey (politician) Seamus Heaney (poet) P (PM) (women’s rights activist) Peter Hennessy (historian) Jeremy Paxman (broadcaster) Ian Hislop (journalist) (politician) E.J.Hobsbawm (historian and Marxist) Philip Pullman (writer) Simon Hoggart (journalist) Libby Purves (journalist) Alan Hollinghurst (author and critic) Philip Hope-Wallace (music and theatre critic) R Michael Howard (politician) Esther Rantzen (broadcaster) Fred Hoyle (astronomer) Claire Rayner (agony aunt) (poet) Lord Reith (founder of BBC and The Listener) John Humphreys (journalist) (author) Dyneley Hussey (music critic for The Listener) (philosopher) Will Hutton (economist) (US singer, ‘blacklisted’ for Aldous Huxley (writer) being a communist sympathiser) (scientist) Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady)

I S Christopher Isherwood (author) Dorothy Sayers (writer) Ned Sherrin (comic) J Hugh Seton-Watson (historian) Clive James (journalist) Edward Shackleton (geographer and son of the George Kennan (Kennan telegram) explorer) JFK (President) (activist, thinker, and founder of LSE) K Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russian writer) Frank Kermode (Critic) George Steiner (academic, linguist, author of (Economist) “After Babel”) (Statesman) Marie Stopes ( advocate)

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T A.J. P. Taylor (historian and broadcaster) Paul Theroux (travel writer) Dylan Thomas (poet) E. P. Thompson (historian and Marxist - “making of the English working class”) Hugh Trevor-Roper (historian) Lynn Truss (writer and grammarian) Mark Tully (journalist – correspondent) Kenneth Tynan (theatre critic)

W Terry Waite (hostage and missionary) (novelist) Mary Warnock (philosopher) Sidney and (founders of the ) (writer) Leonard Woolf (writer, husband of Virginia) (writer)