Neilson is best known for ushering us into dark areas of the human psyche in work such as Penetrator and Relocated, and for latterly creating a play in the rehearsal room.
A patron of the Dignity in Dying campaign, he considered ending his life at Dignitas, the Swiss clinic, but changed his mind and was cared for latterly by his second wife, Christine (nee Kensett), whom he had met while working at Ofsted.
Oddly, what has really endeared him to the nation are the adverts – first for ITV Digital, latterly for PG Tips – in which he appears alongside a knitted monkey.
Their party coasted on protest votes for years, latterly pretending to be some sort of left-wing conscience for Labour.
New Labour, Iraq and the Misuse of Power by Clare Short 304pp, Simon & Schuster, £15 Jon Lee Anderson, an American foreign correspondent for more than 20 years, latterly for the New Yorker, first went to Iraq in 2000.
By general consent the 63-year-old former trade union official, who has represented Labour for Glasgow Springburn, latterly Glasgow North East, for nearly 30 years, can be prickly and thin-skinned, too quick to spot slights, real and imagined.
The discovery of the helitron families of transposons in plant species over the last few years has largely been a consequence of the availability of comprehensive genome sequence for the models rice and Arabidopsis, and latterly for maize.
Pillar, the author of two previous books, was an intelligence analyst for 28 years, mainly at the C.I.A. but latterly for the N.I.C., which occupied a strange niche alongside but not quite in the agency, and after the reforms of 2004 was moved, on paper at least, to the Directorate of National Intelligence.
It was built in 1942 as a bomb shelter, was later used as a prison, then a storage depot for bananas, and latterly it was a club famed for its S&M fetish parties – until Christian Boros and his family bought it.
A royal flush of North American A-listers started queueing up for a dose of Sampha's tremulous falsetto and, latterly, for his un-obvious way with a tune.
Now 87, Roger Corman has been a prolific producer of and director of low-budget films since the mid-1950s, mostly exploitation and genre movies, and initially for "grindhouses" (cinemas showing exploitation movies) and drive-ins, latterly for websites and Netflix.
