 GYLES
BRANDRETH
 Writer,
broadcaster
and former
MP Gyles Brandreth
is one of
Britain’s
most sought-after
public speakers
and has addressed
audiences
in venues
around the
world, from
the New York
Palace to
Buckingham
Palace, from
the senior
executives
of Coca-Cola
to 12,000
members of
the WI at
Wembley (where
he followed
Tony Blair
– and
secured a
standing ovation).
Gyles Brandreth
is editor-at-large
of the Sunday
Telegraph
Review, for
whom he interviews
Princes, Presidents,
Prime Ministers,
and stars
of stage and
screen.
A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth’s varied career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End.
A prolific broadcaster (in programmes ranging from Just a Minute to Have I Got News for You), an acclaimed interviewer (principally for the Sunday Telegraph), a novelist, children’s author and biographer, his best-selling diary, Breaking the Code
, was described as ‘By far the best political diary of recent years, far more perceptive and revealing than Alan Clark’s’ (The Times) and ‘Searingly honest, wildly indiscreet, and incredibly funny’ (Daily Mail). Most recently he has completed two acclaimed royal biographies: Philip & Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage
and Charles & Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair.
As a performer, he has been seen most recently in ZIPP! ONE HUNDRED MUSICALS FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE OF ONE at the Duchess Theatre and on tour throughout the UK, and as Malvolio and the Sea Captain in TWELFTH NIGHT THE MUSICAL at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Gyles Brandreth is one of Britain’s busiest after-dinner speakers and award ceremony hosts. He has won awards himself, and been nominated for awards, as a public speaker, novelist, children’s writer, broadcaster (Sony), political diarist (Channel Four), journalist (British Press Awards), theatre producer (Olivier), and businessman (British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy).
He is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown, with whom he founded the award-winning Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon and co-curated the exhibition of twentieth century children’s authors at the National Portrait Gallery. He is a trustee of the British Forces Foundation, whose Patron is the Prince of Wales, and a former chairman and now vice-president of the National Playing Fields Association, whose Patron is the Queen and whose President is the Duke of Edinburgh.
Gyles Brandreth’s forebears include George R Sims (the highest-paid journalist of his day, who wrote the ballad Christmas Day in the Workhouse) and Jeremiah Brandreth (the last man in England to be beheaded for treason). His great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Brandreth, promoted ‘Brandreth’s Pills’ (a medicine that cured everything!) and was a pioneer of modern advertising and a New York state senator. Today, Gyles Brandreth has family living in New York, Maryland, South Carolina and California. He is London correspondent for “Up to the Minute” on CBS News and his books published in the United States include the New York Times best-seller, The Joy of Lex and, most recently, Philip & Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage.
‘Gyles Brandreth has a serious talent for making people laugh’ Daily Mirror
‘Probably the best speaker I have heard’ Daily Express
‘Brandreth is brilliant‘ Daily Mail
‘A deadpan comic to rival Jack Dee’ Daily Telegraph
‘Not merely, like all the best after-dinner speakers, does he know
how to spin a yarn - he has a touching access to the secrets of the
human heart’ The Times
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