Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth worked in theatre, television and publishing before becoming MP for the City of Chester and a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major's government. He is now a London correspondent for CBS television, presents LBC's weekly arts review for ITN radio, and is editor-at-large of toon meer the Sunday Telegraph Review. Brandreth first worked with Sir John Gielgud in the 1970s at the Oxford Playhouse (where Gielgud originally appeared in 1924) and wrote his first celebration of Gielgud's life and work to mark the actor's eightieth birthday in 1984 toon minder