Oliver Pritchett

Profile: Full name: Oliver Pritchett Area of interest: Humour and Satire Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph Email: oliver.pritchett@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/oliverpritchett Blog: Representation: Networks: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/oliver-pritchett/32/4b3/526

Biography: About: Education: Career: Current position/role: Columnist Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: My father's life is now an open book; Rejoice, for verily, this is my column Broadcast media: Video: BBC Radio 4's 'Frontrow': John Wilson speaks to Jeremy Treglown and V.S. Pritchett's son Oliver about the biography of V S Pritchett, who is surprised by some of the book's revelations about his father (listen) Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: Son of writer V. S. Pritchett, married to author Joan Pritchett, father of cartoonist Matt Pritchett and writer/filmmaker Georgia Pritchett.

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The Sunday Telegraph: Column name: *regular column ended* Remit/Info: Humour and Satire Section: Features / Comment Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: oliver.pritchett@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: Commissioning editor: Day published: Sunday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length: 600/650 words

Articles: It’s official: hail will no longer be the size of golf balls - A search for more meaningful descriptions of the weather is long overdue - 23rd May 2012 My wife and I rejoice when it rains in Biarritz - A wet holiday four years ago is the yardstick by which we now measure all pluvial activity - 30th April 2012 Horsegate: My hacking memories, by Raisa the horse - Adventures with Rebekah, David, the Met police and the Chipping Norton set, as told to Oliver Pritchett - 4th March 2012 Bowls must have babes and baseball caps - The threat to Francis Drake's favourite bowling green should rouse the sport from its stupor - 4th March 2011 At 70, I can't wait to have my happiest years - Grumpiness is one of the great pleasures of life, which explains why we get happier as we age - 23rd February 2010 Final clarifications - It is the policy of this column to correct all errors - but not immediately. After writing in The Sunday Telegraph for 30 years, I believe this would be a good moment to acknowledge a few minor slips - 12th October 2008 (Final column) Viking blood in my house mouse - the local Vermin Archives - 5th October 2008 Black hole in the road - My Big Prang Theory - 28th September 2008 Moondrake - diary of the final frontier - the movers and shakers of the new social space - 14th September 2008 Six characters in search of room service - we are about to see the arrival of a new genre - after Chick Lit, it will be Check-In Lit - 7th September 2008 This column may cause dizziness - Dream (the Department for the Regulation and Evaluation of Acronyms in Medicine) - 31st August 2008 Tambourine Man is blowin' in the wind - before he took up music, Dylan was actually the chairman of a major company quoted on the Stock Exchange. I've found one of his speeches to shareholders at an AGM - 24th August 2008 Go go go Tessa Jowell! - the 2012 Cheer Squad - 17th August 2008 A tale told by a menacing alien life-form - Daleks in Shakespeare - 10th August 2008 archive

The Daily Telegraph: Column name: Another view Remit/Info: Humour and Satire Section: News Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: oliver.pritchett@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/oliverpritchett Commissioning editor: Day published: Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

Articles: The old boys get the cane at our prep school reunion - How we 60-year-old boys chattered happily away about our school days - 14th May 2012 We don't want politicians to feel our pain - It could be the Prime Minister's greatest strength to be out of touch - 3rd April 2012 The 'research’ that never goes without a hiccup - I can’t help worrying about the mental satisfaction of people who carry out scientific surveys - 13th March 2012

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