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Interview 1 Tale of the unexpected Michel Faber is being hailed as an original talent whose disturbing – first ..

... I remembered, as if he had been whittled then carefully sanded.. - . .- Faber is a fascinating, bracing man to talk to. He speaks quietly, almost shyly. He seems strikingly honest, a man of great scruple, who writes like an angel with damaged wings, of ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1055 | Page: 98 | Tags: none

Growing fat on comedy success They enjoy a rude joke and so, it seems, does the rest of Scotland, writes Karen ..

... keen to do a third series of CTF on national television. But if that doesn’t come off, it may mean the end for the Gaelic-speaking socks, Rab McGliniKgy, interpreter of the news for neds, and Betty the sex-mad granny. “If the network comes in, we'll do ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Report by Quentin Sommerville

... intrinsically linked to or preceded by developments in another. You might think radio was the first medium to allow nation to speak unto nation, as the BBC motto says. In a sense this is true, but purists argue that the global communica- ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 402 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

RTE stands up to Des O'Malley RTE'S POLITICAL COVERAGE

... the difficulty about representation on RTE programmes. O'Malley wrote to Lynch, is the broader question of the order of speaking in the House. I spoke to the Ceann Comhairle and he feels that it is not appropriate that I should put down a motion for ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

LEITERS TO THE EDITOR

... Captain increasing secular, oPen and Boyle and a wonderful Lin in Protestant hr attitude. The A Life. In particular, I Irish-speaking, exclusivist remember a brilliantly written Catholic society based on die long speech in the second act myth of a Gaelic ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 610 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

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Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Life
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 963 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

Odd couple who enjoyed a curious friendship on world stage

... curious friendship on world stage Report by Nick Peters in Washington ORIS Yeltsin Bzmnflhudmmd Russian president’s plain speaking. When the men said goodbye afm:'w: phone conversation on Friday they remained at odds over Russia’s crackdown on Chechnya ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 336 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

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... I had followed him all the way through university and just wanted to hear him talk and laugh but I never actually got to speak to him. I didn't get to meet my hero. Eurty Sugrue spoke to Torn M':ler of the Evening Herald after the fight: I achieved ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2831 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

SHORT STORY

... ‘We're all free to,doas we like'in this world. And we are what we choose.” - Sometimes Chinese government officials would ‘speak like that, in riddles which'somehow placed them firmlyin occupation of the moral high .ground, 50 if you weren’t careful you ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 627 | Page: 53 | Tags: none

The festive racing season T was in the autumn of his first professional year that I interviewed sn-(wee) Tony McCoy

... oblitera' tion of what appeared a quality cl :field to add a second King George -r to last March's Cheltenham Blue Riband. , Speaking of sight, if you can get hold of See More Business's . I recommend you pay a The frames may not exactly be Air Titanium, ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 667 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

For dedicated followers of fashion..

... jazz is a conversational art. The soloist constructs a line which is a direct and personal communication - one to one, so to speak Of this soloistic 'conversation', it is true to say, just as devotees of Bach's fugues have often observed, that 'the beauty ...

Published: Sunday 02 January 2000
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1372 | Page: 33 | Tags: none