Horrid Go-ahead Boy: A Life in Broadcasting
Language: English
Published by Book Guild Publishing Ltd, 2010
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Signed. First Edition. Tidmarsh recounts his long career in broadcasting with humour, candour, and a wealth of behind?the?scenes stories from radio and television. His memoir offers insight into the evolution of British media. This signed copy is an appealing addition for collectors of broadcasting history. First Edition SIGNED COPY.
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- Title
- Horrid Go-ahead Boy: A Life in Broadcasting
- Author
- Tidmarsh, John
- Publisher
- Book Guild Publishing Ltd
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Includes dust jacket.
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1846244455
- ISBN 13
- 9781846244452
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.
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About the Author
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.
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