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Harry Thompson

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born

February 06, 1960 in London, The United Kingdom

died

November 07, 2005

gender

male

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Sports

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Harry William Thompson was an English radio and television producer, comedy writer, novelist and biographer. Early in his career Thompson produced the radio comedy programmes The News Quiz and The Mary Whitehouse Experience. Following his move into television, he produced Newman and Baddiel in Pieces, Harry Enfield and Chums and Monkey Dust, and co-produced Never Mind The Buzzcocks. In 1998 he was part of BBC Radio 4's 5-part political satire programme Cartoons, Lampoons, and Buffoons. During these productions he was able to gain exposure for a very large proportion of those who went on to become prominent figures in contemporary British comedy, including: Sacha Baron Cohen, Angus Deayton, Harry Enfield, Ricky Gervais, Nick Hancock, Ian His...more

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Books by Harry Thompson

Average rating: 4.24 · 599 ratings · 104 reviews · 13 distinct works

	This Thing Of Darkness 4.44 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Penguins Stopped Play 3.98 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Biography of Peter Cook 4.25 avg rating — 51 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tintin 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	To the Edge of the World 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	To The Edge Of The World Volume Iii 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	To the Edge of the World 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Richard Ingrams 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tintin: Hergé and His Creation 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	A Common Land, a Diverse People: Ethnic Identity on the Prairie Plains by Harry Thompson, Sandra Looney, Arthur Husebue 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	My rating:

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Quotes by Harry Thompson

“In inventing [General Juan Manuel de] Rosas’ self-justification, I have taken the liberty of drawing almost exclusively on the words of Tony Blair, and the various self-justifications he produced to defend his foreign policy adventures with George Bush in the Middle East and the Central Asia.”
― Harry Thompson

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