Margaret Thatcher the United Kingdom; despite the passage of time, debate over the complicated legacy of Thatcherism persists. Margaret Hilda Roberts was born on 13 October 1925, in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Her parents were Alfred Roberts (1892–1970), from Northamptonshire, and Beatrice Ethel (née Stephenson, 1888–1960), from Lincolnshire. She spent her childhood in Grantham, where her father owned two grocery shops. In 1938, prior to the Second World War, the Roberts family briefly gave sanctuary to a teenage Jewish girl who had escaped Nazi Germany. Margaret, with her pen-friending elder sister Muriel, saved pocket money to help pay for the teenager's journey. Alfred Roberts
Nicholas Parsons entitled "The Straight Man: My Life in Comedy", which was published in 1984, and he produced a book of memoirs in 2010 called "Nicholas Parsons: With Just a Touch of Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation". He appears annually at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe presenting his comedy chat show "The Happy Hour" at the Cabaret Bar at the Pleasance, and has done so since 2001. Parsons is the oldest intermittent broadcaster on BBC Radio (4). Sir David Attenborough is the next oldest intermittent broadcaster on BBC TV and radio. From 1988 to 1991, Parsons served as Rector of the University of St