Mark Gerard Lawson is an English journalist, broadcaster and author.
12 Facts About Mark Lawson
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Mark Lawson is a Guardian columnist, and presented Mark Lawson Talks To.
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Mark Lawson was brought up a Catholic, and was educated at the independent Catholic school St Columba's College in St Albans.
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Mark Lawson has written a column for The Guardian since 1995, having previously written for The Independent, and has twice been TV Critic of the Year, as well as winning many other journalism awards.
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In 2004, Mark Lawson made a documentary for BBC Four called The Truth About Sixties TV, criticising what he called "golden ageists" who, he said, have a rose-tinted view of television's past.
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Mark Lawson became the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's daily arts programme, Front Row, in 1998.
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Mark Lawson has written several radio plays for the network, including St Graham and St Evelyn on the friendship between the Catholic novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs on Mary Whitehouse's unsuccessful litigation against the National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's play The Romans in Britain.
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In 2002, Viz ran a spoof of his Newsnight Review programme, featuring Mark Lawson engaged in a desperate search for hard-core pornography, entitled "The Artful Podger".
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Mark Lawson's first, Bloody Margaret, is a collection of novellas on late 20th-century politics in the UK, including an eponymous satire concerning Margaret Thatcher.
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Mark Lawson's 1995 book Idlewild is an alternative history novel in which both John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe survived the 1960s.
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Mark Lawson chaired the judges for the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.
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In 2022, Mark Lawson wrote about this encounter and his personal experience of Savile in British society.