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Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury, CBE (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic. [1] Life. Bradbury was born in Sheffield, the son of a ...
The History Man is a campus novel by Malcolm Bradbury published in 1975. His best-known novel, it is a satire of academic life in the "glass and steel" universities, the ones established in the 1960s which followed the "redbricks". In 1981 the book was made into a successful BBC television serial.
In 1960, Roger Pippett in The New York Times praised that Malcolm Bradbury "has written a brilliant first novel. Here is a tragi-comedy which sometimes splutters in farce (when it seems like a parody of Lucky Jim) but at its best, fuses sensitivity and irony and becomes a significant social satire ...
Anything More Would Be Greedy is a six-part British television comedy-drama miniseries was written and created by Malcolm Bradbury and directed by Rodney Bennett, this series was produced by Anglia Television for the ITV Network, first aired on ITV from 26 July to 30 August 1989.
Cuts was written by author Malcolm Bradbury, commissioned by Hutchinson as part of their Hutchinson Novella series, published in 1987. It used a host of plays on the word "cuts" to mock the values of Thatcherite Britain in 1986 and the world of television drama production in which Bradbury had become involved after the adaptation of The History Man (by Christopher Hampton).
Taylor is sometimes thought to be the model for Howard Kirk in Malcolm Bradbury's novel The History Man [2] although Bradbury and Taylor had not met at the time the book was written. Taylor was then a member of the Trotskyist political party International Socialists .
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He has been a contributor to BBC Radio, presenting many programmes over the years. Besides his many academic books he collaborated with his friend and colleague Malcolm Bradbury on two television plays and an 8-part situation comedy, Patterson. They were also joint editors of the multi-volume Contemporary Writers series for Methuen.