Simon Hoggart

As The Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer, Simon Hoggart's descriptions of our legislators are second to none. In A Long Lunch he reveals tales from 40 years in journalism: what really happened at the Lady Chatterley trial, what happened when he mixed a drink for WH Auden, why John Sergeant drove a flight attendant into a fury, what Alan Clark said about Melvyn Bragg and the day Enoch Powell met Bill Haley. Former chairman of Radio 4's News Quiz and a reporter in Northern Ireland, Simon manages to mix political acuity with unfailing wit.

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