Richard Osman
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Richard Osman

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 12, 202614 min

The writer, presenter and podcaster Richard Osman has released his latest novel – We Chase Shadows, the second book in his We Solve Murders series. The release follows the success of his Thursday Murder Club novels which have sold millions of copies since the first book was published in 2020. It has since been made into a film produced by Steven Spielberg. Known for his TV presenter role on the hit game shows Pointless and Richard Osman’s House of Games, Osman started his career in showbusiness as a producer, devising formats for TV game shows which he pitched to broadcasters. He b...

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Back to the mid-1980s this week, a Sunday evening programme called Turn It Up on BBC Radio Sussex.

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Back to the mid-1980s this week, a Sunday evening programme called Turn It Up on BBC Radio Sussex. Well, historic, eh? Historic, I reckon. A fabulous wedding present ending the Turn It Up Christmas party.

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A youth access alternative music show made and presented by a bunch of local kids and college students. I was one of them back then. So here we are again, the 1985 Brighton Urban Free Festival, a mixture of fun, music,

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alternative theatres, zappy comedians and buckets and buckets of grain. As grumpy then as I am now. Future BBC news readers Clive Mairi, Jane Hill and DJ Joe Wiley were part of that team of young wannabes too. So it was the bloke we're profiling this week.

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