Lucy Mangan



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Full name: Lucy Mangan

Area of interest: Modern life - society and culture

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:lucy.mangan@guardian.co.uk lucy.mangan@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Guardian.co / Lucy Mangan

Blog: Comment is free...; the blog arts & entertainment

Agent: A.M. Heath

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Biography:
Education: Cambridge University

Career: The Guardian

Current position/role: Columnist, feature writer and TV critic


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TV/Radio: IMDb
 * BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour (audio):
 * Holding Back the Years 12th April 2007
 * Lucy Mangan: Hopscotch & Handbags 23rd August 2007

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Books & Debate:

 * Hopscotch & handbags: the essential guide to being a girl OCLC 132303625, 2007

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The Guardian:
Column remit: Culture, Media, Society

Section: Guardian Weekend

Role: Columist

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:lucy.mangan@guardian.co.uk lucy.mangan@guardian.co.uk]

Website: Lucy Mangan's weekend column

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Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Weekly

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 * also contributes occasional comment pieces and to last night's TV



Articles:

 * Street, here's to 40 more years'' - As Sesame Street turns 40, it can take pride in its achievements – and its lovable puppets that make everything A-OK - 10th November 2009
 * curious case of the sacked dinner lady'' - Heard the one about the dinner lady sacked for telling the truth to a bullied child's parents? You couldn't make it up - 3rd October 2009
 * new chapter'' - How to celebrate one's first wedding anniversary? By reorganising my books, of course - 26th September 2009
 * feminism means to me'' - 19th September 2009
 * many books and nothing to read'' - There is a cure for reader's block – a darkened room, a cold compress and three fingers of whisky - 12th September 2009
 * are worse things than death'' - 'I am on the train back from visiting the misfits, battle-axes and borderline personality disorders that comprise my extended family' - 5th September 2009
 * Eileen is waiting and we are already seven seconds late'' - Mother has ingeniously child-locked the front passenger door, and I'm bursting for a wee… 'Is there something you're not telling me,' I ask - 29th August 2009
 * and rule begins at school'' - There is nothing more pernicious than the educational divide in this country - 22nd August 2009


 * off the catchphrase. It's fandabidozi!'' - The popular catchphrase repeated ad infinitum to the exasperation of adults is a childhood tradition - 1st April 2009
 * brave attempt to make sci-fi less geeky'' - The US cable channel Sci Fi is changing its name to Syfy. Good luck. You're going to need it - 18th March 2009
 * what have we learned from TV's social experiments?'' - With Channel 4's new TV show Boys and Girls Alone about to begin, it seems a good time to gather all the pearls of wisdom reality TV has scattered before us - 11th February 2009
 * ER's dying'' - After 15 years of dizzying camerawork, frenetic action, baffling jargon and glamorous doctors, ER is finally closing its doors - 7th Januaary 2009
 * and easy to digest'' - Creators of Wallace and Gromit, Aardman animations, latest film is a government commission to fight obesity - 2nd January 2009
 * and telly'' - What's big on the box? Lucy Mangan on her Christmas television childhood highs and lows - 24th December 2008
 * out for the count - but her fans will never forget her'' - Neither consonants nor Countdown will be the same without her - 11th December 2008
 * liaisons'' - As most teenage girls in Britain will already know, Twilight - a tale of love between a young woman and a vampire - has now been made into a movie. It will no doubt be a huge hit. But what a shame it's not more like Buffy - 4th December 2008
 * economics'' - All that "eat within a year" stuff is nonsense. Even with food poisoning, you're still saving money - 22nd November 2008
 * minister, no minister ... anything you say minister'' - Shortcuts - 18th November 2008
 * a card-carrying sceptic'' - Jacqui Smith is either an liar or unable to notice she is being accosted by neurotic racists - 15th November 2008
 * awe'' - I am having to look with narrowed eyes at my own home, trying to work out if it or anything therein could be reconfigured as an asset - 25th October 2008
 * steps to happiness'' - Kick up leaves! Chat to strangers! Spatchcock a chicken! Lucy Mangan tries out the latest advice on how to keep misery at bay - 23rd October 2008
 * development'' - If God made man in his own image, he is a fat bloke with his feet up watching Sky+ - 18th October 2008
 * breath I take ...'' - I have been unable to breathe since May, and am starting to find it annoying - 11th October 2008
 * better or worse'' -For six months, I have been performing profoundly unnatural acts of organisation, pecuniary disbursement and decision-making, and I think I have at last done enough to ensure that some vague semblance of a wedding-shaped event can take place - 27th September 2008
 * them eat (carrot) cake'' - 20th September 2008
 * little helps'' - Tesco is changing the traditional, ungrammatical signs at its express tills - 13th September 2008
 * the unlikely Cambridge University storyline revealed'' - Shortcuts - 3rd September 2008
 * concerns'' - So, the boomers have finally won, have they? - 30th August 2008
 * we stand, united we'd fall'' - Bloody Tories. Even when they're not in power they do nowt but cause trouble - 23rd August 2008
 * utterly, splendidly ripping'' - Enid Blyton has been voted Britain's best- loved writer - 20th August 2008
 * so-called Games are less than sporting'' - Gone are the days when a man could put down his cigarette, brush the crumpet crumbs from his front and break the four-minute mile in a manner that even the octogenarian in charge of the clockwork stopwatch could measure - 16th August 2008
 * is a British beach'' - 9th August 2008
 * The ship that floats my boat - I am increasingly finding that navigating safe passage through life is entirely dependent on matters of scale - 2nd August 2008
 * Another ad pulled - but was anyone offended? - 30th July 2008
 * Ride high on a donkey - I have just received another press release from the Financial Services Authority - 26th July 2008
 * The joy of New Napkins - 19th July 2008
 * There's trouble in store, believe you me - Forget the fuel protests across Europe, and the food riots in Mexico - Marks & Spencer has been hit - 13th July 2008
 * Your Majesty, one has been short-changed - By my calculations, the royal family owes us each a 22p refund - 5th July 2008
 * to Manganland'' - I have tried to declare my own patch of south-east London an independent principality for years - 28th June 2008
 * The bells, the bells... - 21st June 2008
 * Why is Dad potty about potatoes? - 14th June 2008
 * Hay! You! Get off of my cloud - 7th June 2008
 * Charlatans beware - 31st May 2008
 * Sex and the pity - 24th May 2008
 * Planned retreat - 17th May 2008
 * With the best will in the world - 10th May 2008
 * Confused? You will be - 3rd May 2008
 * Catford: a tribute (yes, really) - 26th April 2008
 * Preparing for a marriage of two minds - 19th April 2008
 * Digging for victory - 12th April 2008h
 * Doom with a view - 5th April 2008
 * The Family Challenge - 29th March 2008
 * Things I've never done before: My first flight - 8th March 2008
 * Antisocial behaviour disorder - 8th March 2008
 * Wedding hells - 23rd February 2008
 * Before and after: the new trend in workout DVDs - 2nd January 2008
 * 2008 - the year I'm gonna get cultured - 29th December 2007
 * Keep it in the family - 22nd December 2007
 * Objecting to the objectors - 15th December 2007
 * On the gift of giving - 8th December 2007
 * Speculation on accumulation - 1st December 2007
 * Riding for a fall - 24th November 2007
 * An appreciation of a token - 17th November 2007
 * Graveyard schooling - 10th November 2007



Comment Pieces:

 * guide to the Conservative psyche'' - It's hard to come to terms with the fact I married a Tory – and the insights on the Conservative mind that this provides - 8th October 2009
 * it's all those zillions and kabillionzillions, but I always get a little excited about budget day'' - This year, things are different. For this year we have a chancellor without any money. Not a scrap - 20th April 2009
 * do we rid ourselves of the awful images brought on by Mr Jacqui Smith? Try this ...'' - Here are some suggestions for how we might spin ourselves (and even the beleaguered couple) out of this mental and professional - 31st March 2009
 * Protocol be damned: how Juan Carlos became the cuddly king - 23rd July 2008
 * Everyone's a winner on The Apprentice - well, almost ... - 24th June 2008
 * The sums of all fears - A government report says many primary teachers aren't good enough at maths to teach their own pupils. So just how much of her own school maths can Lucy Mangan remember ..? - 18th June 2008
 * I don't care about the Joneses - We're encouraged to save money by switching our shopping habits around and bargain-hunting on the net. But do we really need all these things anyway? - 17th June 2008
 * When James Naughtie met his Waterloo - 20th May 2008
 * Hands off the Doctor Who knitting circle - A faceless behemoth is bent on crushing an innocent earthling and Doctor Who is nowhere to be found - 15th May 2008
 * Tony Blair and the long massage - Lord Levy's warning to Tony Blair about his massages from Carole Caplin forms an interesting insight into the backward Westminster mindset - 29th april 2008
 * Unite the tut - You can see where the government is coming from. It's in their interests to define British ideals and unite the country under them before we are all carried, one Saturday night, on a tidal wave of alcopops and vomit into the abyss - 22nd March 2008
 * Royalty reality - ITV has announced the signing of Sarah Ferguson for a reality show in which she will move to a council estate in Hull - 15th March 2008
 * The latest street danger? Walking and texting - 5th March 2008
 * Time for the headline writers to let them be - Tabloid headline writers keep ripping off Beatles songs during Paul McCartney's divorce - 14th February 2008
 * Farewell Tucker, Gripper and Pogo after 30 years. You made us feel like normal schoolkids - For anyone over 25, the news that Grange Hill is to be axed after one final series is no occasion for sorrow. We had, after all, by far the best of it - 7th February 2008



The Guardian: other columns

 * Cable girl Tuesday
 * This week Saturday
 * Dear Lucy Saturday
 * Book corner Saturday



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