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3 unusual facts about Mark Lawson


Mark Lawson

He has written several radio plays for the network, including St Graham and St Evelyn (2003) on the friendship between the Catholic novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs (2005) on Mary Whitehouse's unsuccessful litigation against the National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain.

However, his Guardian journalism has not been universally admired and Richard Gott, a former colleague, has commented that the "prevalence of the bland and the obsequious" on The Guardian is typified by Lawson's "embedded presence".

Tim Blair

He has criticised the work of other journalists and bloggers, including Margo Kingston and writers Elizabeth Farrelly, Mike Carlton, Terry Lane, Mark Lawson, Tracee Hutchison of The Age and Robert Fisk.


Eastside Educational Trust

Eastside Educational Trust's celebrity patrons include but are not limited to: Denys Baptiste, Quentin Blake, Samantha Bond, Patti Boulaye, Katie Derham, Jenny Eclair, Frederick Forsyth, Henry Goodman, Richard E Grant, David Harewood, Anish Kapoor, Martha Kearney, Soweto Kinch, Mark Lawson, Adrian Lester, Sharman Macdonald, Curtis Walker, Zoë Wanamaker, Sir Arnold Wesker, Samuel West and Gary Wilmot.


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