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Michael McMahon writer and broadcaster |
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| Michael McMahon has contributed to The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Tablet, The Catholic Herald, The New Statesman, The Spectator, Chronicles of American Culture, The Hong Kong Tatler, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. He has written columns, op-eds and editorials on educational, cultural, social, and religious issues, and features about travel, wine, people and wildlife. |
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His work is wide-ranging, from vigorous condemnations of contemporary educational nostrums to pieces about canal boating, the Millennium Dome, Christian sex manuals, the decline of the traditional English pub, kipping in convents, and the making of a champagne house. He has written about characters he has met (including Cardinal Hume, Reuben Singh, and Aslan Abashidze) and places he has visited (including France, Spain, Italy and the republic of Georgia). |
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| Michael McMahon's schools edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream was published in 2001. His edition of King Henry IV, Part One was published in 2000. His Saints: the Art, the History, the Inspiration was first published by MQP in the autumn of 2006 and has since been translated into Spanish, Estonian and Hungarian. Michael McMahon is co-author of My Friend, the Enemy (April, 2007), the story of Paul Briscoe, an English boy who was a member of the Hitler Youth. A paperback edition was published in March 2008. He is co-author of A Lifetime in the Building (May, 2009), a biography of Miss May Savidge, who moved a medieval hall house from Hertfordshire to Norfolk and rebuilt it with her own hands. |
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Michael McMahon has been contributing Night-time Pause for Thought talks to Radio 2 since 2004, the year in which he walked
the last 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago, making
live contributions to Radio 2's Good Morning Sunday en route. He was consultant
to the BBC TV series 'Classrooms at War'
and has participated in various programmes on Radio 4, ITV
and Teachers'
Television.
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michael.mcmahon@homecall.co.uk |
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