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Michael Billington (critic)

Michael Billington (born on 16 November, 1938 in Leamington Spa) is a British theatre critic and broadcaster.

Billington was educated at Warwick School and St Catherine's College, Oxford, and began working as a journalist in Liverpool. He worked as Public Liaison Officer and Director for Lincoln Theatre Company from 1962 to 1964. He began reviewing films, plays and television programs for The Times in 1965. He became film critic for the Birmingham Post and the Illustrated London News in 1968.

He has been the drama critic of The Guardian newspaper since 1971, is drama critic for Country Life magazine and has written frequently for the New York Times. He is a regular contributor to radio and television programmes and was a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 arts programmes Kaleidoscope and a frequent participant in Critics Forum on Radio3.

Publications

His books include biographies of the playwrights Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter, as well as biographies of the comedian Ken Dodd (How Tickled I Am 1977) and Dame Peggy Ashcroft (1988). is a selection of his reviews for The Guardian from 1971 to 1991. Michael Billington has also edited Stage and Screen Lives in 2001, which is a collection of biographies of personalities from the film and theatre worlds written for the Dictionary of National Biography.
November 16 is the 1st day of the year (2nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 0 days remaining.

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1900s  1910s  1920s  - 1930s -  1940s  1950s  1960s
1935 1936 1937 - 1938 - 1939 1940 1941

Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII
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Royal Leamington Spa

Leamington Spa ()
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2]   (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Warwick School is an independent school for boys in Warwick, England, and is reputed to be the third-oldest surviving school in the country after King's School, Canterbury and St Peter's School, York.
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St Catherine's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the largest colleges of the University and its motto is Nova et Vetera ("the new and the old").
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City of Liverpool
Liverpool skyline, as seen from across the River Mersey

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Location within England
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
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The Times

Front page from a October 17, 2007 edition
Type Daily newspaper
Format Compact

Owner Times Newspapers Ltd
Editor Robert James Thomson
Founded 1785
Political allegiance Centre / Centre Right
Price £0.70 (Monday-Friday)
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Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner Trinity Mirror
Editor Marc Reeves
Founded 1857
Political allegiance Centre-left
Price £0.
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The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of the magazine Punch. With Lemon as his chief adviser, the first edition of the Illustrated London News appeared on 14 May, 1842.
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Typical Guardian front page
Type Daily newspaper
Format Berliner

Owner Guardian Media Group
Editor Alan Rusbridger
Founded 1821
Political allegiance Centre-Left
Language English
Price £0.80 (Monday-Friday)
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Country Life is a British weekly quality magazine. It covers the pleasures and joys of rural life, as well as the concerns of rural people. It is primarily concerned with the lifestyle and concerns of landowners and other rich country dwellers, but it has many readers who
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The New York Times
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet

Owner The New York Times Company
Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
Staff Writers 350
Founded 1851
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BBC Radio 4

Broadcast area UK - National
First air date 30 September 1967
Frequency FM: 92 MHz - 95 MHz
LW: 198 kHz
MW: various
DAB: 12B
Freeview: 704
Virgin Media: 904
Sky Digital: 0104
UPC Ireland: 910
Internet: Streaming Audio Real/WM
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Kaleidoscope is the second album from CCM Artist Rachael Lampa

Track listing

1. Savior Song

2. Im All Yours

3. Brand New Life

4. Lead Me(I'll Follow)

5. No Greater Love

6. For Your Love

7. Beautiful

8. Santuary

9.
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BBC Radio 3

Broadcast area UK - National
First air date 30 September 1967
Frequency FM: 90 MHz - 93 MHz
DAB: 12B
Freeview: 703
Virgin Media: 903
UPC Ireland: 909
Live Stream Real/WM
Format Classical
Owner BBC
Website www.bbc.co.
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Tom Stoppard

Pseudonym: William Boot (as a theatre critic)
Born: July 3 1937 (1937--) (age 70)
Zlín, Czechoslovakia
Occupation: Playwright and screenwriter
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Alan Ayckbourn CBE
Born: March 12 1939 (1939--) (age 68)
Hampstead, London
Occupation: Playwright and director
Nationality: British
Writing period: 1959 – present
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Harold Pinter

On the steps of his house, fielding questions from the press on the afternoon of the Nobel Prize in Literature announcement, 13 October 2005
Born: September 10 1930 (1930--)
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Kenneth Arthur Dodd OBE (born 8 November 1927, in Knotty Ash, Liverpool), better known as Ken Dodd, is a veteran English comedian and singer, famous for selling over 100 million records, his buck teeth, frizzy hair, feather duster (or "tickling stick"), and his catchphrases,
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Peggy Ashcroft

Birth name Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft
Born 22 November 1907(1907--)
Croydon
Died 14 May 1991 (aged 85)
London, England

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See also critic.


A review is an evaluation of a publication, such as a movie, video game, musical composition, book, or a piece of hardware like a car, appliance, or computer.
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The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885. The updated Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB
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