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Michael Johnston

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Leith, Scotland, The United Kingdom

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Michael Johnston was born in Leith in 1936 and grew up in the Scottish Borders. At school he was bookish and not keen on rugby. In 1950, he auditioned for the BBC and read a story on Children’s Hour. Leaving school he studied Textile Design but, in 1953, he also auditioned for the BBC Younger Generation programmes and for the next five years worked as an occasional freelance interviewer, presenter and question panel member.

In 1955, he spent a summer working in France. He used his BBC experience to arrange an interview with Françoise Sagan, then a teenage French novelist, which was part of a radio documentary he recorded, wrote and presented. He went on to write several radio documentaries for the BBC including one about the relatively unkn ...more

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Michael Johnston’s books

Average rating: 3.73 · 2,278 ratings · 353 reviews · 109 distinct works • Similar authors

	40 Great Stained Glass Projects 3.98 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy 3.52 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Engaging the Word 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Medieval Manuscript Book: Cultural Approaches by Michael Johnston (Editor), Michael Van Dussen (Editor) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Stained Glass Boxes 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Stained Glass Lamps 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	H-Bombs and Hula Girls: Operation Grapple 1957 and the last Royal Navy Gunroom at sea 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conundrum of Corruption: Reform for Social Justice by Michael Johnston, Scott A. Fritzen 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Stained Glass Panels 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SEASON MVP'S IN NBA HISTORY 1955 – 1980: The best basketball players in the world: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Moses Malone, Bob Pettit, Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (1 book)
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Michael Johnston (Editor),

Michael Van Dussen (Editor)

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“There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy.”
― Michael Johnston, In the Deep Heart's Core

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“Popular participation is seen in positive terms, but – once we move beyond grand strategy to specific questions of priorities and tactics – primarily as backing agendas set from above.”
― Michael Johnston, The Conundrum of Corruption: Reform for Social Justice

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