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Mark Gerard Lawson〔(Mark Lawson's Biography: People of Today ) Debretts.com〕 (born 11 April 1962) is an English journalist, broadcaster and author. Specialising in culture and the arts, he is best known for presenting the flagship BBC Radio 4 arts programme ''Front Row'' between 1998 and 2014.〔Padraic Flanagan ("Mark Lawson to leave BBC show 'for personal reasons'" ), telegraph.co, 5 March 2014〕 He is also a ''Guardian'' columnist, and presents ''Mark Lawson Talks To...'' on BBC Four. == Life and career == Born in Hendon, London,〔("Mark Lawson to leave BBC's Front Row" ), BBC News, 5 March 2014〕 Lawson was raised in Leeds, where his father was a marketing director for the Civil Service and British Telecom.〔 Both of his parents originated from the North East of England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=They're playing our show )〕 He was brought up a Catholic, and was educated at the independent Catholic school St Columba's College in St Albans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Lawson: My life as a Catholic Jew )〕 He then took a degree in English at University College London, where his lecturers included John Sutherland and A. S. Byatt. Lawson has been a freelance contributor to numerous publications since 1984, beginning on ''The Universe'' in that year, and for ''The Times'' from 1984 to 1986. He has written a column for ''The Guardian'' since 1995, having previously written for ''The Independent'' (1986–95), and has twice been TV Critic of the Year as well as winning many other journalism awards. However, his ''Guardian'' journalism has not been universally admired and Richard Gott, a former colleague, has commented that the "prevalence of the bland and the obsequious" on ''The Guardian'' is typified by Lawson's "embedded presence".〔Richard Gott ("The lost magic of Manchester": Book Review of "The Bedside Years: The Best Writing from The Guardian, 1951–2000", ) ''New Statesman'', 28 January 2002〕 Lawson presented ''The Late Show'' on BBC2 in the 1990s and presented its offshoot ''The Late Review'' (later ''Sunday Review'' and from 2000 ''Newsnight Review'') until the 2005 "review of the year" edition of ''Newsnight Review'', broadcast on 16 December, which marked the end of his association with the format. In 2004, Lawson made a documentary for BBC Four called ''The Truth About Sixties TV'', criticising what he called "golden ageists" who, he claimed, have a rose-tinted view of television's past. Lawson became the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's daily arts programme, ''Front Row'', in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Lawson to leave BBC's Front Row )〕 He has written several radio plays for the network, including ''St Graham and St Evelyn'' (2003) on the friendship between the Catholic novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh and ''The Third Soldier Holds His Thighs'' (2005) on Mary Whitehouse's unsuccessful litigation against the National Theatre production of Howard Brenton's play ''The Romans in Britain''. He has also written episodes of the television version of the BBC sitcom ''Absolute Power'' appearing as himself in the series 1 episode 2, "Pope Idol", and is one of many celebrities impersonated by the ''Dead Ringers'' team, referred to as "Britain's brainiest potato" and "the thinking woman's potato" because of his baldness. In 2002, ''Viz'' ran a spoof of his ''Newsnight Review'' programme, featuring Lawson engaged in a desperate search for hard-core pornography, entitled "The Artful Podger". In addition to his work in print journalism and the broadcast media, Lawson has written five books, both fiction and non-fiction. His first, ''Bloody Margaret'' (1991), is a collection of novellas on late 20th century politics in the UK, including an eponymous satire concerning Margaret Thatcher. This was followed by ''The Battle for Room Service'' (1993), a travelogue of people, politics and culture encountered by Lawson as a journalist. His 1995 book, ''Idlewild'', is an alternate history novel in which both John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe survived the 1960s. ''Going Out Live'' (2001) focused on contemporary celebrity culture and the media, and ''Enough is Enough'' (2005) is a satire set in the government of Harold Wilson during the late 1960s. Lawson chaired the judges for the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. His in-depth, one-to-one interviews for BBC Four, entitled ''Mark Lawson Talks to …'' has been running since 2006. His connection with ''Front Row'' ended in March 2014 for "personal reasons" in a joint agreement with the BBC.〔 An internal report completed in January investigated claims of bullying within the BBC Radio Arts, which produces ''Front Row'', and identified one producer and presenter as responsible. While Lawson has denied bullying,〔John Plunkett ("Mark Lawson to leave BBC Radio 4's Front Row amid claims of bullying" ), ''The Guardian'', 5 March 2014〕 ''The Daily Telegraph'' reported on 5 March that Lawson was the presenter involved and he had been accused of "browbeating junior staff" who are often young freelancers.〔Padraig Flanagan ("Mark Lawson quits Radio 4 'Front Row' amid bullying furore" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 5 March 2014〕 He currently lives near Towcester.〔("Steve Riches: Lawson makes the effort – but draws with Leeds are best!" ''Northampton Chronicle'' 25 June 2011 )〕 Lawson supports Northampton Town FC and frequently goes to games, both at Sixfields and away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Lawson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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