Horrid Go-ahead Boy: A Life in Broadcasting

Tidmarsh, John

ISBN 10: 1846244455 / ISBN 13: 9781846244452

Published by Book Guild Ltd, 2010

The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR005985647

Synopsis:

Includes CD: Interview with Alastair Cooke on 50 years of reporting from America.

From the United Nations in New York to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, from the Himalayas to Somalia, John Tidmarsh's career as a BBC journalist and broadcaster - and particularly as a presenter of BBC World Service's most popular programme, Outlook - has taken him all over the globe and involved him in numerous exciting and dangerous adventures. Drawing on this richly patterned tapestry of experience, John has woven the many stray threads of his life into a memoir to beguile the general reader and delight his loyal fans everywhere. He writes vividly, with candour and humour, about his childhood in Bristol and his National Service in Singapore, where he spoke into a microphone for the first time as a radio operator at RAF Seletar. For Foreign News he covered such momentous events as the Independence of Algeria and the Civil Rights March, led by Martin Luther King, from Selma to Montgomery. On Outlook he interviewed innumerable celebrities, and here provides the reader with brief but illuminating pictures of some of those whom he found most interesting, including Henry Kissinger and Margaret Thatcher among politicians, and Richard Attenborough and Dudley Moore in show business.

In this book that 'Horrid go-ahead boy', as Noel Coward called him, continues to give pleasure to a wide audience.

About the Author: John Tidmarsh spent over 40 years working in radio and television, more than 30 of these with what became the most popular programme on BBC World Service, Outlook.

Born on 13th August 1928, John was an evacuee during the early years of the Second World War, attending three different schools before joining his parents in Bristol for his final school years at Cotham Grammar School. He left full time education at 16 to become a junior reporter on the Western Daily Press. After completing his two years of National Service, John rejoined the Western Daily Press as a sports reporter, but was quickly offered a job by the BBC, initially on the regional magazine programme, The Week in the West. Four years later he joined the reporting staff at Broadcasting House in London.

John Tidmarsh was awarded the OBE in 1997 for services to broadcasting.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Horrid Go-ahead Boy: A Life in Broadcasting
Publisher: Book Guild Ltd
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Good