Nick Clarke (1948–2006)

Author of Alistair Cooke: The Biography

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About the Author

Nick Clarke joined BBC TV News in 1973. Since 1989 he has been a BBC Radio presenter, first on The World This Weekend and since 1994 on The World at One. He is married and lives in London

Works by Nick Clarke

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Alistair Cooke: The Biography (1999) 133 copies, 1 review

The bluffer's guide to wine (1967) 8 copies

The Shadow of a Nation: How Celebrity Destroyed Britain (2003) 6 copies, 1 review

Kai's Power Tools 3: An Illustrated Guide: Windows and Macintosh (1997) 4 copies

Swingers III and IV (2005) 4 copies

Coming Through the Rye (The Swingers Series) (1993) 3 copies

The Swingers I and II (2005) 3 copies

The Mini Mob (1993) 2 copies

Kai's Power Tools: An Illustrated Guide/Book&Cd-Rom (1995) 2 copies

Public Affairs (Swingers) (1993) 2 copies

Private Relations (The Swingers) (1993) 1 copy

Sunset Strip (Swingers) (1994) 1 copy

The Swingers 2: Public Relations (1993) 1 copy

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Legal name: Clarke, Nicholas Campbell
Birthdate: 1948-06-09
Date of death: 2006-11-22
Gender: male
Education: Westbourne House School, West Sussex, England, UK
Bradfield College, Berkshire, England, UK
University of Cambridge (Fitzwilliam College)
Occupations: journalist
radio presenter
television presenter
Organizations: BBC Radio 4
Nationality: England
UK
Birthplace: Godalming, Surrey, England, UK
Places of residence: England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK

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eglinton 255 reviews

The Shadow of a Nation: How Celebrity Destroyed Britain by Nick Clarke

Well constructed but not terribly gripping, this book tries to cover the contemporary era, or rather the changes of the author's lifetime, with a portrait of selected celebrities on the model of Strachey's 'Eminent Victorians'. Somehow their life stories don't catch fire, nor do they do much in the way of debunking the status of these 'noted Elizabethans'. For me the sparse memoirs of the author's own progress from childhood through career, and the biographical details of his father, show more presented as a counterpoint to the flightiness of our contemporary culture, are the more intersting part of the book. show less

Jul 5, 2010

Budzul 2,103 reviews

Alistair Cooke: A Biography by Nick Clarke