Lawyer turned performer and rhetoric expert Benet Brandreth is the latest to play the Dane in a production that opened on August 30 at London’s Park Theatre. He hopes audiences will be attracted ...

The Brandreth name clearly has some pull in Edinburgh, with you-know-who’s son Benet attracting a near sold-out crowd at 11.15am on a weekday. While some scions of the famous like to downplay their ...

Benet Brandreth argues that our current political discourse is bankrupt, so he proposes a novel solution: a legislature by lot. Show more Benet Brandreth argues that our current political ...

Were it possible to harness the amount of oomph that is, in a day, poured out across a stage by the Brandreth family, you could almost certainly power a small village. Even at 11:15am Benet ...

Young Shakespeare becomes a spy in British rhetoric coach Brandreth’s first novel, The Spy of Venice (Pegasus Crime, July). What led you to imagine Shakespeare as an espionage agent? My first ...

Brandreth is a gifted raconteur and, as tales of mock heroics go, you won't get finer Brandreth places himself, Zelig-like, at the centre of historical events. And so we learn that after graduation he ...

Gyles Brandreth lauds '˜egalitarian Edinburgh' and relates anecdotes about Laurence Olivier and Bernard Manning as he and his award-winning son Benet prepare to stage shows Did you know with a ...

Benet Brandreth - son of TV presenter and former MP Gyles - will be bringing his debut novel, The Spy of Venice, to the Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival next month. It is the 'thrilling tale ...

As Benet Brandreth wisely points out, “you have to get the attention of the people that you are trying to persuade. It’s no good having the best argument in the world if no one’s listening.” ...

Join award-winning comedian Benet Brandreth for a comic tale of love, loss, redemption and ramekins. Slightly surreal, hugely funny, it's a story about how to cope with the absurdity of today's world, ...

I had that thought when I heard that ubiquitous irritant Gyles Brandreth’s son was following in his father’s showbusiness footsteps. It is a relief, then, to announce that The Brandreth Papers ...