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Calendar Boy
Austin Mitchell
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Description for Calendar Boy
Hardcover. Autobiography of the popular and controversial media figure and MP. Highly controversial but very funny account of life in 1970's television and parliament. Num Pages: 320 pages, 80 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJP; APT; BGHA; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 171 x 24. Weight in Grams: 724.
These are the highly controversial memoirs of Austin Mitchell, local TV star of the 1970s and MP for Great Grimsby. Austin was the poster boy for Calendar TV at a time when local television had a much greater impact than national TV and its stars were the celebrities of the day. Austin charts his career path and reveals how he fell into his role at Yorkshire Television and went on to become its most popular presenter. He reveals the truth behind some of the most popular moments in TV history, including the infamous spat between Brian Cough and Don ... Read more
These are the highly controversial memoirs of Austin Mitchell, local TV star of the 1970s and MP for Great Grimsby. Austin was the poster boy for Calendar TV at a time when local television had a much greater impact than national TV and its stars were the celebrities of the day. Austin charts his career path and reveals how he fell into his role at Yorkshire Television and went on to become its most popular presenter. He reveals the truth behind some of the most popular moments in TV history, including the infamous spat between Brian Cough and Don ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Barnsley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473828445
SKU
V9781473828445
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Ref
99-2
About Austin Mitchell
Born in Bradford, Mitchell was educated at Woodbottom Council School, Bingley Grammar School, the University of Manchester and Nuffield College, Oxford. From 1959-63 he lectured in history at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was a journalist at ITV company Yorkshire Television from 1969 to 1977, presenting their regional news programme Calendar, although he spent a short ... Read more
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