![]() ![]() In 2015 he took on the focal role in On the Warr Path, a BBC radio programme in which he had to complete a weekly range of challenges set by the producers. Between 20 Warr hosted The Warr Zone, a phone-in radio show. Warr was a broadcaster on BBC Radio Suffolk, whose broadcasts included Saturday football reports, and he made regular appearances on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show. This event is noted in Magnus Magnusson’s autobiography I've Started, So I'll Finish (1998). Warr was the only person ever to have hosted Mastermind on BBC1 with Magnus Magnusson in the famous black chair as a contestant. He was also a contestant on Mastermind in 1981. His television appearances have also included being guest on The One Show (2007) and on Sunday Morning Live (2010-2012). He also appeared in Channel 5's The Nightmare Neighbours Next Door. He was subsequently cast in the role of languages teacher and then headmaster in Channel 4's series about 1950s grammar schools That'll Teach 'Em which ran for 3 seasons from 2003 to 2006. Warr's television career began in 2003 with BBC1's Rule the School. ![]() He also coached the 1st XV rugby squad.įrom 1983 until his arrest in 2012, Warr taught languages at the Royal Hospital School, Ipswich In 1981 Warr took up a post at St George's School, Stowmarket where he taught French, German and Latin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This world map (below) created in 1536 by Oronce Fine (1494–1555) who was one of the first French scholars to work with cartography. And finally, here we have a cordiform projection.Here is an example of a Mercator projection circa 1820:.The first map that Thomas and Amelia look at (the one in which Greenland looks so big) is a Mercator projection: I have always been a total geek for maps, so I was very excited to be able to include some cartography in the book.I got to pick out the cover models for this one! As with The Lost Duke of Wyndham, the cover was meant to evoke a romantic movie poster.Many scenes occur in both books, but from different points of view. When I began to develop these two novels, it became clear that if I didn’t want the plot or characters of one book to be dependent upon the other, I would need to write the two books simultaneously. Cavendish, I Presume take place concurrently, and their plots are very closely intertwined. One of them must be wrong.” (Two points if you can guess where that line comes from.) For years I’d wanted to write a two-book set based on the premise: “Two men say they’re the Duke of Something. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dark, fast-paced, and riotously funny entertainment. A wry glossary "defines" British terms ("Nuffink: The way you say 'nothing' if you were dragged up rather than brought up"), but can't begin to illuminate the arcane mysteries of the British football-industrial complex readers are on their own there. About her mother's boyfriend's Velvet Underground albums, Shauna yawns, "It's nice that you gave some money to people just playing music for the first time." Allison's adults are sympathetically drawn, too-even the archvillain has a human side. There's plenty of cynical commentary about British consumer culture, and the students' sardonic banter provides a constant obbligato. football (soccer) team trying to bully an elderly homeowner to sell her house as the title hints, supernatural elements surface, too. The framing story concerns a Russian owner of a U.K. Why does John Allisons quirky and charming scripting work so amazingly well for Giant Days but just falls short in his fantasy titles like this one and By. Set in a grammar school in a British working-class community, this first book in his Bad Machinery series-originally published as a webcomic-has three earnest boys wing against three sharp-tongued girls to solve mysteries. 'This small-press charmer, based on an ongoing webcomic, is a stylish jumble of pop-culture references, sly humor, eye-catching characters, mystery-and, oddly enough, aliens.' - Kirkus PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) - Allison is a triple threat: he plots deftly, draws confidently, and writes dead-on adolescent dialogue. ![]() |