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Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, former MP and Government Whip тАУ and one of BritainтАЩs most sought-after award ceremony hosts and after-dinner speakers.
Currently a reporter on The One Show on BBC1 and a regular on Radio 4тАЩs Just a Minute, his acclaimed Victorian detective stories тАУ The Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries тАУ are now being published in twenty-one countries around the world.
A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles BrandrethтАЩs career has ranged from being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John MajorтАЩs government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in LondonтАЩs 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, childrenтАЩs author and biographer, he has published two volumes of diaries: тАШBreaking the Code: Westminster DiariesтАЩ (тАЬBy far the best political diary of recent years, far more perceptive and revealing than Alan ClarkтАЩsтАЭ тАУ The Times) and тАШSomething Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a LifetimeтАЩ (тАЬWitty, warm-hearted and deeply poignantтАЭ тАУ The Daily Mail).
As a performer, Gyles Brandreth has been seen most recently in Zipp! One Hundred Musicals For Less Than The Price Of One at LondonтАЩs 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. 2010 saw him back in Edinburgh and on tour once more with his own one-man show, The One to One Show.
2010 also saw his play, Wonderland, opening in Edinburgh. With music by Susannah Pearse, it stars Michael Maloney as Lewis Carroll and Flora Specer-Longhurst as Isa Bowman, the actress who played Alice in Wonderland on stage.
Gyles Brandreth is one of BritainтАЩs busiest after-dinner speakers and award ceremony hosts. He has won awards himself, and been nominated for awards as a public speaker, novelist, childrenтАЩs writer, broadcaster (Sony), political diarist (Channel Four), journalist (British Press Awards), theatre producer (Olivier), and businessman (British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy).
