Editing Christopher Booker (section)

===1970s===
He married Christine Verity, his second wife, in 1972.<ref name="Grun"/> In the early 1970s, Booker campaigned against both the building of [[tower blocks]] and the wholesale redevelopment of Britain's cities according to the ideology of the [[Modern architecture|modernist]] movement. In 1973, he published ''Goodbye London'' (written with [[Candida Lycett Green]]), and, with Bennie Gray, was the IPC Campaigning Journalist of the Year. He made a documentary for the BBC in 1979 on modernist architecture, called ''City of Towers''. In the mid-1970s he contributed a regular quiz to [[Melvyn Bragg]]'s BBC literary programme ''Read All About It'', and he returned to ''The Spectator'' as a weekly contributor (1976–1981), when he also became a lead book-reviewer for ''The Sunday Telegraph''. In 1979, he married Valerie Patrick, his third wife, with whom he had two sons; they lived in [[Somerset]].<ref name="Grun"/>