Marcus Berkmann

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Marcus Berkmann (born 14 July 1960) is a journalist and author.

Life

Berkmann was educated at

Sunday Express and has written a monthly pop music column for The Spectator since 1987.[2]

With his schoolfriend

Rain Men (1995), which humorously chronicles the formation and adventures of his own cricket touring team, the Captain Scott Invitation XI.[5] Berkmann has continued to write newspaper and cricket magazine columns, such as the Last Man In column on the back page of Wisden Cricket Monthly, while producing a number of critically well-received humorous books.[6] In Brain Men (1999), he applied his sardonic observations to the world of pub quizzes, and takes the same approach to Fatherhood (2005). Later in 2005, he released the book Zimmer Men
, as a sort of sequel to Rain Men, describing his next team, and his transition into middle age with cricket.

He is also credited as one of the writing team of the BBC Three comedy show Monkey Dust, and compiles the "Dumb Britain" column in Private Eye magazine. In 2009, he set up the quiz company Brain Men with Stephen Arkell and Chris Pollikett. His book A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis was serialised by BBC Radio 4 in its Book of the Week slot during 2012.[7] In the same year, he replaced Fred Housego as Marcel Berlins' partner on Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4.

A fan of Star Trek since its first British screening by the BBC in 1969, his book on the franchise, Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek, aimed at the general reader, was published in March 2016.[8]

Bibliography

  • The complete guide to Test cricket in the Eighties. Partridge Press. 1990.
  • Other People: Portraits From The 90s with D. J. Taylor (Bloomsbury, 1990)
  • Rain Men: The Madness of Cricket (Little, Brown, 1995)
  • Brain Men: A Passion to Compete (Little, Brown, 1999)
  • Fatherhood: The Truth (Vermilion, 2005)
  • Zimmer Men: The Trials and Tribulations of the Ageing Cricketer (Little, Brown, 2005)
  • The Prince of Wales (Highgate) Quiz Book (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006)
  • "iPod dilemma" The Spectator 308/9397 (4 October 2008) : 53
  • Ashes to Ashes (Little, Brown, 2009)
  • A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis (Little, Brown, 2012)
  • Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek (Little, Brown, 2016)
  • Berkmann's Cricketing Miscellany (Little, Brown, 2019)
  • Berkmann's Pop Miscellany: Sex, Drugs and Cars in Swimming Pools (Little, Brown, 2021)
  • How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea (Little, Brown, 2022)
  • Still a Bit of Snap in the Celery, or K.B.O. (Abacus, 2023)

References

  1. ^ "Interview with Marcus Berkmann". www.worldofspectrum.org. Archived from the original on 2012-06-25.
  2. ^ "The Spectator Magazine". Archived from the original on 2007-10-25.
  3. ^ "Lenin of the Rovers". Archived from the original on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
  4. ^ "Lenin of the Rovers - Series 01 & 02 - 8 Episodes - Audio Comedy - 128kbps Mp3 - Slimoo Torrent Download". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
  5. ^ "C&W Agency". cwagency.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Marcus Berkmann". www.journalisted.com.
  7. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Marcus Berkmann - A Shed of One's Own: Midlife Without the Crisis, Episode 2". BBC.
  8. ^ Berkmann, Marcus (13 March 2016). "Star Trek 50th anniversary: A celebration of the original TV series and its unique vision of the future". The Independent on Sunday. Retrieved 19 March 2016.

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