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<h1><font face=" Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#1E4B74">Edwina
Currie<br>Author, Broadcaster, Politician and Celebrity Speaker</font></h1>
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<p><font face=" Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#003366">Edwina
Currie was born in Liverpool, UK in 1946 and went to the same school
as Beatle George Harrison. Much of her education was spent in the
Cavern Club listening to their music. Somehow she won a scholarship
to Oxford University to read Chemistry; surrounded by Nobel prize
winners, she switched to Philosophy, Politics and Economics, on
the grounds that you only have to be mad to be a polititian. Also
present (1968) was William Jefferson Clinton III, hiding behind
a beard. She took her masters at the London School of Economics,
an experience which turned her into a life-long Tory.</font></p>
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<font face=" Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1E4B74">Edwina
has had three successful careers - so far! After a decade of public
office in the city of Birmingham, she stood for Parliament in 1983
and represented a Midlands seat for 14 years. She became one of
the nation's best known MPs and served in Margeret Thatcher's government
1986-88, in the Department of Health. She became famous for her
campaigns to persuade the British to eat more wisely, quit smoking
and take more exercise, to which certain Neanderthal citizens took
great exception. She was also involved in the first AIDS campaign
in the UK that saved many lives. She resigned over food safety (salmonella),
and turned down John Major's request to return to government in
1992.</font></p>
<p> <font face=" Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1E4B74">By
then she was getting stuck in to career number two - writing. This
has turned out far more lucrative than honest politics, and loads
more fun. She started with non-fiction, then turned to novels which
were instant best-sellers in the UK. Her fifth novel, "<i>Chasing
Men</i>,"came out on Valentine's Day 1999. They've been translated
into German, Italian, Russian and Polish, but are not published
in the USA.<br>
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</font><font face=" Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1E4B74">Career
number three started after the last General Election in 1997 which
minced the Conservatives and brought Mr Blair to power. Edwina lost
her seat, and was offered a job by the BBC. She now has her own
very successful weekend radio programme, "<i>Late Night Currie</i>,"
which broadcasts live on the Internet allover the world. She also
does TV presenting, and has appeared on most prime time TV shows
in the UK and Ireland. More to come in 2000...</font></p>
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<p><font face=" Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#1E4B74">Edwina
has been called "<i>the best communicator the Tories have</i>,"
and "<i>a brash and energetic life force</i>," Her life to date
has been summed up by fellow writer and MP Sir Julian Critchley:
"<i>Edwina Currie has a brass neck, a silver tongue and a golden
pen.</i>"</font></p>
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