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Siân Elizabeth Busby (19 November 1960 – 4 September 2012) was a British writer.
The daughter of the Canadian actor Tom Busby and Wendy Russell, Siân Busby was educated at Creighton School in Muswell Hill, north London and read English at Sussex University.
Originally embarking in a career in arts television, she switched later to writing. Her first two books were non-fiction. A Wonderful Little Girl (2003) concerned a Welsh child whose apparent ability to survive without nourishment led doctors to term the condition anorexia while The Cruel Mother (2004) was a semi-autobiographical account of child murder by one of Busby's ancestors.
McNaughten (2009) concerned a mentally unstable 19th-century woodcutter who was accused of attempting to assassinate Sir Robert Peel. Daniel M'Naghten, a genuine historical figure, had instead shot and fatally injured Edward Drummond, Peel's private secretary. Significant in case law, the M'Naghten rules resulted from his acquittal at the subsequent trial.on the grounds of insanity. Another book Who Was Boudicca, Warrior Queen (2006) was written for children.
The Honourable Robert James Kenneth Peston (born 25 April 1960) is a British journalist currently working as the Political Editor for ITV News. From February 2006 until March 2014, he was the Business Editor for BBC News. He became known to a wider public with his reporting of the late-2000s financial crisis, especially with his scoop on the Northern Rock crisis.
Peston is the son of economist and Labour Peer Maurice Peston and Helen (Conroy). As the son of a peer he is entitled to the courtesy title "The Honourable" but does not use it. Peston attended Highgate Wood Secondary School, in Crouch End, North London, graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a second in 1982 and then studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Peston briefly worked as a stockbroker at Williams de Broë, becoming a journalist in 1983 at the Investors Chronicle and joining The Independent newspaper on its launch in 1986. From 1989 to 1990 Peston worked for the short-lived Sunday Correspondent newspaper as Deputy City Editor, before being appointed City Editor of the Independent on Sunday in 1990.
Richard and Judy is the name informally given to Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, a British married couple who are both television presenters and columnists. They are best known for presenting the daytime television programme This Morning from 1988 until 2001 and then hosting the daily chat show Richard & Judy from 2001 until 2009.
Richard and Judy met in 1982 when they worked on separate programmes for Granada Television. At this time each was in their first marriage. The couple married in 1986 in Manchester. They have two children together, both born in Manchester: Jack Christopher (born 1986) and Chloe Susannah (born 1987). Every Friday The Show Was Liam & Adam.
Their best known show was This Morning, which they hosted from its inception in 1988 until 2001. The series, a mix of celebrity interviews, household tips, cookery and phone-ins lasted approximately two hours each weekday morning on ITV. This live show set the standard for daytime fare in British television throughout the 1990s. It first aired in October 1988 and was broadcast from the Albert Dock in Liverpool, although production moved to London in 1996. They were so closely associated with the show, that many people referred to it by their names, Richard and Judy, rather than This Morning.
Stacy Patton talks to BBC reporter Robert Peston about his late wife Sian Busby, their life together, and the powerful themes in Sian's final book, A Commonplace Killing. A COMMON PLACE KILLING is available to download here: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Crime-Thrillers/A-Commonplace-Killing-Audiobook/B00J2HR6JK?source_code=YTUDisc1Bk0001WS030912&bp;_ua=yes
A chance to listen to the exclusive book club podcast discussion between Richard and Judy and Robert Peston, the Husband of Sian Busby, author of Spring 2014 Book Club title A Commonplace Killing. For more fantastic bonus content on A Commonplace Killing go to the New Richard and Judy Book Club Site http://goo.gl/rmC6Yv ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check the website for the latest offers and prices
OUT NOW £14.99 The winter of 1843 is one of bitter strife for England. The nation is on the brink of ruin and revolution, the government struggling to stand firm against the rising chaos. Out of this apocalyptic landscape emerges a young Scotsman, Daniel McNaughten. He has been on a journey, a descent into his own despair, mirroring the tribulations of society at large. His journey will end in London, with the murder of an apparently innocent man. One freezing day in January, he takes a shot at the Prime Ministers Private Secretary, Edward Drummond, as he makes his way to Downing Street. The incident rocks the nation. Has the assassin perhaps mistaken Mr. Drummond for the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel? And who is he, this McNaughten? A dangerous political radical possibly the agent of ...
Get your free audio book: http://opri.us/d/b00j2hyp0i On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a womans body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife and mother who lived in a war-damaged terrace a few streets away. The police assume that Lil must have been the victim of a vicious sexual assault; but the autopsy finds no evidence of rape, and Divisional Detective Inspector Jim Cooper turns his attention to her private life. How did Lil come to be in the bomb site a well-known lovers haunt? If she had consensual sex, why was she strangled? Why was her husband seemingly unaware that she had failed to come home on the night she was killed? In this gripping murder story, Siân Busby gradually peels away the veneer of stoicism and respecta...
Directed by Elizabeth Schafer The Studio Theatre, Drama Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, October 1995 The pioneering English playwright Elizabeth Cary (1585-1639) published her play The Tragedy of Mariam in 1613. Mariam is the first known play in English written by a woman; it is also a play full of assertive women characters declaring independence, demanding freedom in marriage, and arguing for the right to divorce. This undergraduate production took as its keynote a speech by Salome from Act 1 Scene 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Why should such privilege to man be given? Or given to them, why barr’d from women then? Are men than we in greater grace with Heaven? Or cannot women hate as well as men? I’ll be the custom-breake...
~EXPAND FOR MORE~ Hi guys, it's been a while since I posted on here so I thought I would share the books I want to read this summer. I've seen this video a lot across booktube so thought, why not? Mine is fairly small due to the fact that I have a pretty long reading list for university too. Hope you all enjoy this! ~--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------~ Links To Goodreads Pages For Books Mentioned: Elizabeth Is Missing - Emma Healey (http://bit.ly/2a5FEnN) When Wings Expand - Mehded Maryam Sinclair (http://bit.ly/2a5GqB1) Daughter of Dust: Growing up an Outcast in the Desert of Sudan - Wendy Wallace (http://bit.ly/29K8hBj) A Commonplace Killing - Siân Busby (http://bit.ly/2a5Gjpm) The Hidden Cottage - Erica James (http://bit.l...
Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to watch some of the nation's best-loved writers live from the comfort of your living room! Love reading? Missed out on tickets? You are in luck our exclusive YOU Book Day is being streamed live via YouTube from the event in London! Watch live Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, and novelists Wendy Holden, Kathy Lette and Penelope Lively. BBC News business editor Robert Peston will be talking about his late wife Sian Busby's novels, and comedian Francesca Martinez, Professor Tanya Byron, economist Vicky Pryce, Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, and our very own columnist Liz Jones will also be there. www.mailbookshop.co.uk
Official videos at http://www.fitness-events.co.uk Britain already boasts many of the WBFF's most impressive Pro athletes. Now, the WBFF will present its first ever UK show, in London on November 9th, at the famous O2 venue. Here, former World Champion Fitness Model Shaun Stafford previews the event, with exclusive footage of existing Pros such as Jamie Alderton, Jason Dwarika, Sian Toal, Tom Brazier, Juliana Conci-Mitchell, Nyisha Jordan, Dominic Busby, Gabriel Sey, Mirella Clarke, Emma-Jane Brook, Femi Billyrose and James Alexander-Ellis. So who will be the next generation of British Pro Athletes? Find out here. This channel will be sharing exclusive footage of the event, and you can buy complete official videos at http://www.fitness-events.co.uk
The second annual Ixion Staff Awards, held at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford, on 06/011/14. Below is the complete list of nominees and winners: Shortlisted Nominees for Young Person Award: • Sade Farrell • Fran Smith • Aaron Caddell Winner : Aaron Caddell Shortlisted Nominees for New Starter Award: • Saline Moore • Alice Chaplin • Paula Gordon Winner: Alice Chaplin Shortlisted Nominees for Inspirational Leader Award: • Iain Lockhart • Jackie Hadfield • Craig Hughes Winner: Iain Lockhart Shortlisted Nominees for Unsung Hero Award: • Sam Bellingham • Merrick Dawes • Gill Chapman Winner: M...
Official video for the Magnetic Fields "Quick!", from the album Love at the Bottom of the Sea--out now on Merge Records. Ada: Elizabeth Webster Blom: Erik Sandling Director of Photography: James Blann Production Designer: Eddie Hecht Make Up: Giada Venturini Production Manager: Sian Tomlinson Producers: Peter Middleton and Jen Kerrison Director: James Spinney Production Company: Fee Fie Foe Films