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Famous Contributors Famous Contributors Gale Primary Sources: NewsVault: The Listener Historical Archive, 1929-1991 A G. K. Chesterton (writer) Tariq Ali (intellectual) Noam Chomsky (academic) Kingsley Amis (writer) Winston Churchill (PM) Martin Amis (writer) Kenneth Clark (art historian) David Attenborough (naturalist) Arthur C Clarke (sci-fi writer) Clement Attlee (PM) John Cleese (actor, comedian) Jean Cocteau (director) B Alex Comfort (author of Joy of Sex) Stanley Baldwin (PM) Robert Conquest (historian Julian Barnes (writer) Alistair Cooke (Letters from America) W. H. Auden (poet) Noel Coward (actor) Vernon Bartlett (journalist) Edwina Currie (politician) Lord Beaverbrook (publisher) Saul Bellow (author) D Tony Benn (politician) Hugh Dalton (politician) Alan Bennett (playwright) Richard Dawkins (Scientist) Isaiah Berlin (intellectual) Charles De Gaulle (French leader) John Betjeman (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) Anthony Blunt (art critic and spy) Carol Ann Duffy (poet) John Bossy (historian) Geoffrey Boycott (cricketer) E William Boyd (writer) Terry Eagleton (Academic) Malcolm Bradbury (writer) Umberto Eco (Writer) Melvyn Bragg (broadcaster) Anthony Eden (PM) Asa Briggs (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) Anthony Burgess (writer) A.S. Byatt (writer) F Sebastian Faulks (Writer) C Michael Foot (politician, leader of Labour Simon Callow (Actor) Party) David Cannadine (historian) E.M. Forster (writer) John Le Carre (author) Michael Frayn (writer) Barbara Castle (politician) Stephen Fry (broadcaster and polymath) Neville Chamberlain (PM) Famous Contributors G L Hugh Gaitskell (politician, leader of Labour Cecil Day-Lewis (Poet) Party) Wyndham Lewis (Poet) Ernest Gellner (anthropologist, author of ‘nations and nationalism’) M David Lloyd George (PM) Ramsay Macdonald (PM) Anthony Giddens (sociologist) Harold Macmillan (PM) John Gielgud (actor) Daphne Du Maurier (Writer) Grace Wyndham Goldie (pioneering female Spike Milligan (Comic) BBC producer, later head of BBC News) Oswald Mosley (Fascist Leader) Ernst Gombrich (art historian) Malcolm Muggeridge (satirist) Germaine Greer (writer and feminist) Iris Murdoch (writer) H O Roy Hattersley (politician) Conor Cruise O’Brien (Irish leader) Dennis Healey (politician) Seamus Heaney (poet) P Edward Heath (PM) Sylvia Pankhurst (women’s rights activist) Peter Hennessy (historian) Jeremy Paxman (broadcaster) Ian Hislop (journalist) Enoch Powell (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) Ted Hughes (poet) Lord Reith (founder of BBC and The Listener) John Humphreys (journalist) Salman Rushdie (author) Dyneley Hussey (music critic for The Listener) Bertrand Russell (philosopher) Will Hutton (economist) Paul Robeson (US singer, ‘blacklisted’ for Aldous Huxley (writer) being a communist sympathiser) Julian Huxley (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) George Bernard Shaw (activist, thinker, and founder of LSE) K Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Russian writer) Frank Kermode (Critic) George Steiner (academic, linguist, author of John Maynard Keynes (Economist) “After Babel”) Henry Kissinger (Statesman) Marie Stopes (birth control advocate) Famous Contributors 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 – India correspondent) Kenneth Tynan (theatre critic) W Terry Waite (hostage and missionary) Hugh Walpole (novelist) Mary Warnock (philosopher) Sidney and Beatrice Webb (founders of the Fabian Society) Evelyn Waugh (writer) Leonard Woolf (writer, husband of Virginia) Virginia Woolf (writer) .
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