Longer Andrew Brown
Thursday December 01, 2005; part of: Blather

Perhaps I should just change my name to Biggles and get over it. Two people have asked me to day if I wrote a biography of JD Bernal which has just come out. No, I didn't. That was some other Andrew Brown, about whom I know nothing.

Posted by andrewb at December 01, 2005 07:47 PM
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At one stage there were three journalists working in London all called Douglas Brown: the BBC man (the corporation's first religious affairs correspondent), one on the Sunday Telegraph, and one other whose paper I forget. Occasionally they would receive cheques meant for one of their namesakes.

Posted by: Robert Nowell on December 2, 2005 09:55 AM

I'd been meaning to tell you (and this is an obvious peg that one of the other people here at Nature went out of his way to tell me how much he liked my stuff on the wrap and that worm thing. He took some persuading to be convinced that i wasn't in fact you -- persuading that I found a little surreal because i couldn't imagine how he had come to think that i was.

Posted by: Oli on December 2, 2005 10:30 AM

I think you're much more of an Algy than a Biggles. Perhaps a biography of William Earl Johns?

Posted by: DHM on December 2, 2005 02:27 PM

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