by John Humphrys, Christopher Humphrys · Hodder & Stoughton Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780340978832
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«Blue Skies and Black Olives» is the memoir by John Humphrys and Christopher Humphrys, published by Hodder & Stoughton in paperback (274 pages).
John Humphrys impulsively buys a semi-ruined house and a plot of land overlooking the Aegean Sea. His son Christopher, a musician with a good command of Greek, offers to help him build the dream villa. The work drags on for four years amid an escaped peacock, a colony of rats, peculiar neighbors and builders; the account combines humor and frustration as father and son discover Greece and get to know each other better.
Non-fiction work with subtitle 'A Survivor's Tale of Housebuilding and Peacock Chasing in Greece'. Text in English; original publication on September 10, 2009.
For readers interested in humorous memoirs, stories of renovations and building abroad, and Greek rural life.
Desmond John Humphrys is a Welsh broadcaster. From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter of the Nine O'Clock News, the flagship BBC News television programme, and from 1987 until 2019 he presented on the BBC Radio 4 breakfast programme Today. He was the host of the BBC Two television quiz show Mastermind from 2003 to 2021, for a total of 735 episodes. Humphrys now presents a regular Sunday afternoon show on Classic FM, where he also sometimes fills in on the weekday More Music Breakfast show.
