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Libby Purves

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Elizabeth Mary "Libby" Purves, OBE (born 2 February 1950) is a British radio presenter, journalist and author. [1]

37 relations: Bangkok, BBC, BBC Radio 4, Beechwood Sacred Heart School, Benedict Nightingale, Brian Redhead, British undergraduate degree classification, Clive Robertson (actor), Demetri Marchessini, Duncan Wu, Glenn Wilson (psychologist), James MacMillan, John Wilson (conductor), Joseph Phibbs, London, Mark Boxer, Midweek (BBC Radio 4), Mother Country, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Order of the British Empire, Outing, Oxford Union, Paul Heiney, R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Square rig, St Anne's College, Oxford, Suffolk, Tatler, The Cambridge Union, The Daily Telegraph, The Oldie, The Times, Tina Brown, Today (BBC Radio 4), Vladimir Putin, Westleton.

Bangkok

Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Thailand.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Beechwood Sacred Heart School

Beechwood Sacred Heart School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school for boys and girls aged 3 – 18, which comprises a Nursery, Preparatory School and Senior School, with boarding for boys and girls aged 11 – 18.

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Benedict Nightingale

William Benedict Herbert Nightingale (born 14 May 1939) is a British journalist, formerly a regular theatre critic for The Times newspaper.

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Brian Redhead

Brian Leonard Redhead (28 December 1929 – 23 January 1994) was a British author, journalist and broadcaster.

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British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure for undergraduate degrees (bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees) in the United Kingdom.

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Clive Robertson (actor)

Clive Gladstone Robertson (born 17 December 1965 in Devizes, Wiltshire, England) is a British actor perhaps best known for his roles on the soap opera Sunset Beach, the Canadian science fiction series Starhunter, and the 2010 science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie.

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Demetri Marchessini

Demetri P. Marchessini (20 July 1934 – 6 March 2016) was a Greek businessman.

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Duncan Wu

Duncan Wu (born 3 November 1961 in Woking, Surrey) is a British academic and biographer.

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Glenn Wilson (psychologist)

Glenn Daniel Wilson (born 29 December 1942) is a psychologist best known for his work on attitude and personality measurement, sexual attraction, deviation and dysfunction, partner compatibility, and psychology applied to performing arts.

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James MacMillan

Sir James Loy MacMillan, CBE (born 16 July 1959) is a Scottish classical composer and conductor.

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John Wilson (conductor)

John Wilson (born 1972) is a British conductor, arranger and musicologist who conducts orchestras and operas, as well as Big Band jazz.

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Joseph Phibbs

Joseph Phibbs (born 25 April 1974) is an English composer of orchestral, choral and chamber music.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mark Boxer

Charles Mark Edward Boxer (19 May 1931 – 20 July 1988) was a British magazine editor and social observer, and a political cartoonist and graphic portrait artist working under the pen-name ‘Marc’.

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Midweek (BBC Radio 4)

Midweek was a British weekly radio magazine series broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Mother Country

Mother Country (2002) is a novel by Libby Purves about a young American computer expert who goes in search of the relatives of his biological father, a teenage heroin addict in 1970s London when she had him who was pronounced an unfit mother and who died soon after giving birth to him.

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Outing

Outing is the act of disclosing an LGBT person's sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent.

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Oxford Union

The Oxford Union Society, commonly referred to simply as the Oxford Union, is a debating society in the city of Oxford, England, whose membership is drawn primarily from the University of Oxford.

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Paul Heiney

Paul Heiney (born Paul Wisniewski 20 April 1949) has been a radio broadcaster or television reporter in the United Kingdom for over forty years, but remains best-known as a former presenter of That's Life!.

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R. W. Ketton-Cremer

Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, (2 May 1906 – 12 December 1969) was an English landowner, biographer and historian.

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Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a large affluent town in western Kent, England, around south-east of central London by road and by rail.

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Square rig

Square rig is a generic type of sail and rigging arrangement in which the primary driving sails are carried on horizontal spars which are perpendicular, or square, to the keel of the vessel and to the masts.

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St Anne's College, Oxford

St Anne's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Tatler

Tatler is a British magazine published by Condé Nast Publications focusing on fashion and lifestyle, as well as coverage of high society and politics.

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The Cambridge Union

The Cambridge Union Society, commonly referred to as "The Cambridge Union", is a debating and free speech society in Cambridge, England, and the largest society at the University of Cambridge.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Oldie

The Oldie is a British monthly magazine written for older people "as a light-hearted alternative to a press obsessed with youth and celebrity", according to their website.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Tina Brown

Tina Brown CBE (born Christina Hambley Brown; 21 November 1953), is a journalist, magazine editor, columnist, talk-show host and author of The Diana Chronicles, a biography of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Today (BBC Radio 4)

Today, or The Today Programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, broadcast on Monday to Friday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am and 7:00 am to 9:00 am on Saturday.

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Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (a; born 7 October 1952) is a Russian statesman and former intelligence officer serving as President of Russia since 2012, previously holding the position from 2000 until 2008.

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Westleton

Westleton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Purves

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