by John Humphrys, Christopher Humphrys · tapa dura · ISBN 9780340978825
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«Blue Skies & Black Olives» is the memoir by John Humphrys and Christopher Humphrys, published by Hodder & Stoughton in hardback (288 pages, in English).
John Humphrys impulsively buys a semi-ruined cottage overlooking the Aegean, where his son Christopher already lives, to build a villa. The work drags on for four years amid peacocks, rats, hostile neighbours and builders. With humour and exasperation, father and son portray life in Greece and its people, and also their own relationship.
The work was originally published in 2009. Its subtitle is 'A Survivor's Tale of Housebuilding and Peacock Chasing in Greece'.
For readers of travel writing who appreciate humour and anecdotes about life in Greece.
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.
