Bernard Levin
✓ Source-basedstableBritish journalist, writer and broadcaster (1928-2004)
Henry Bernard Levin was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952.
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Christ's Hospital school in West Sussex
Levin's LSE tutors, Karl Popper (l.) and Harold Laski
Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter (1871), borrowed by Levin as nicknames for Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson; illustration by John Tenniel
Among Levin's many topics - top Eldridge Cleaver, Wagner; below Field Marshal Montgomery and a Death watch beetle
Levin interviewing the Wagnerian bass Martti Talvela for the BBC in 1972
Funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, LondonAwards 2
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Howard LangAlso in Nothing But the Best (1964)
Geraldine McCaughreanAlso won Fellow of the English Association
Maureen DuffyAlso won Fellow of the English Association
Celia ReesAlso won Fellow of the English AssociationAbout this person
Henry Bernard Levin was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by The Times as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics, graduating in 1952. After a short spell in a lowly job at the BBC selecting press cuttings for use in programmes, he secured a post as a junior member of the editorial staff of a weekly periodical, Truth, in 1953.
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