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A hilarious new collection of diplomatic tales by Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson. Heard the one about the Spanish Ambassador who arrived in the scorching Saharan desert fully suited and with a mysteriously enormous suitcase? Or the horse they gave Prime Minister John Major in Turkmenistan - which hapless embassy officials had to rescue from the clutches of the Moscow railway? These and other 'funnies', as they are known in Whitehall, are included in this glorious new volume of not so diplomatic writing, which accompanies a new BBC Radio 4 series. Drawn from Freedom of Information requests and previously overlooked Valedictories, these startling despatches throw a revealing light on how the British have viewed the world - and, unwittingly perhaps, on how the world has viewed the British.
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After working in the Foreign Office then serving as a Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times and one for the Spectator, and in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. His acclaimed autobiography Chance Witness was published by Penguin in 2003. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a radio journalist working in the BBC's Business and Economic Unit. He frequently works as a producer on Radio 4's Today programme and on Radio 5 Live. Together they wrote the highly successful Parting Shots, published by Viking in 2010.
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- PublisherViking
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0670921033
- ISBN 13 9780670921034
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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