About Revel Guest
Lived 1931 – 2022 (aged 90–91). Revel Guest was a documentary filmmaker and producer.
Revel Sarah Guest (14 September 1931 – 8 June 2022) was a British filmmaker, journalist, author and farmer who was Chair Emeritus of the Hay Festival.
Early life and career Guest was born in London on 14 September 1931. A politician's daughter (her father, Oscar Guest and his three brothers served as MPs with their cousin, Sir Winston Churchill), she was educated at Bedgebury School and the London School of Economics where she read politics and philosophy.
After working as a secretary for Jo Grimond in the House of Commons, she stood as the then youngest ever female Conservative parliamentary candidate (for Swansea East) in the 1955 election.
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British journalist and filmmaker
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Revel Guest was born on 14 September 1931.
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Revel Guest died in 2022.
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Revel Guest was a documentary filmmaker and producer.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Revel Guest. https://biography.guide/revel-guest/
MLA: "Revel Guest." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/revel-guest/.
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