John Swinfield's Big Business

PARTY TIME: Clive Sinclair and Jeffrey Archer

November 10, 2021 John Swinfield Season 1 Episode 16
PARTY TIME: Clive Sinclair and Jeffrey Archer
John Swinfield's Big Business
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John Swinfield's Big Business
PARTY TIME: Clive Sinclair and Jeffrey Archer
Nov 10, 2021 Season 1 Episode 16
John Swinfield


PARTY TIME: Clive Sinclair and Jeffrey Archer

Legendary inventor and computer genius Sir Clive Sinclair was a friend of many years standing of John Swinfield. They met up again at a party given by the Tory peer and novelist Jeffrey Archer and his wife Mary at their Grantchester home in Cambridge. John recalls a colourful cast including Lord Archer, who went to jail for perjury; Michael Edwardes, the cost-cutting boss of stricken car conglomerate British Leyland, and the fruity-voiced thespian Donald Sinden. 
With Oxford and London, Cambridge is in a high-tech golden triangle – and the recipient of an £850 million pound infrastructure investment by Blackstone, one of America’s most powerful investment firms. 



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PARTY TIME: Clive Sinclair and Jeffrey Archer

Legendary inventor and computer genius Sir Clive Sinclair was a friend of many years standing of John Swinfield. They met up again at a party given by the Tory peer and novelist Jeffrey Archer and his wife Mary at their Grantchester home in Cambridge. John recalls a colourful cast including Lord Archer, who went to jail for perjury; Michael Edwardes, the cost-cutting boss of stricken car conglomerate British Leyland, and the fruity-voiced thespian Donald Sinden. 
With Oxford and London, Cambridge is in a high-tech golden triangle – and the recipient of an £850 million pound infrastructure investment by Blackstone, one of America’s most powerful investment firms.