Barry Norman
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| - | Veteran journalist best known as a film critic and host of ''Film 72'', ''Film 81'', ''Film 86'' and ''Film 95'', to name but four. | + | Veteran journalist best known as a film critic and host of ''Film 72'', ''Film 81'', ''Film 86'' and ''Film 95'', to name but four. He stepped down from that role in 1998 but continued to pop up on programmes about movies and wrote a weekly column in ''Radio Times''. |
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[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0743449703/ And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover (paperback)] | [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0743449703/ And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover (paperback)] | ||
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Revision as of 11:56, 1 July 2017
Biography
Veteran journalist best known as a film critic and host of Film 72, Film 81, Film 86 and Film 95, to name but four. He stepped down from that role in 1998 but continued to pop up on programmes about movies and wrote a weekly column in Radio Times.
He died in July 2017, at the age of 83.
Trivia
In 2007 he launched his own brand of pickled onions, called, er, "Barry Norman's Pickled Onions", based on an old family recipe. Apparently they're quite nice.
Books / Tapes
And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover (paperback)
Web links
Barry Norman's Pickled Onions website
