Backing into the Spotlight'Backing into the Spotlight is a hilarious and an unashamedly non PC memoir . . . Now in his eighth decade, Whitehall is a fine raconteur, gloriously unreconstructed and still deeply suspicious of modernity' Daily Mail Standing in front of a full length mirror in my dressing room at ITV studios, waiting to go on to the set of Backchat, I had a brief conversation with my reflection. 'Michael, what the f*** do you think you're doing?' Theatrical agent

to incarceration in an asylum and finally to the life of a recluse in Mexico City

Each book includes stimulating quizzes to keep your brains in perfectworking order

full of laughs and a little heartache

It’s like salt – a little gives flavour

The authors prompt readers to question common assumptions about how schools should look and how children should be educated:Why have so many schools changed relatively little in more than a century

As if redemption were possible for all of us as if the void that threatens to engulf us all could be filled by a personal relationship with Christ in the present

Weisman was by his side through it all

vividly evoke Wangari's amazing life story

making icy drinks (and clearing up spills) and baking a cake - it's a perfect time for Mo to find out about changing states of matter

some visitors are still at large

Magna Carta was the forerunner of the constitution that limited the powers of the crown and its echoes can be found in the seventeenth-century Civil Wars

Osamu Dazai