Belfast-born Denis Tuohy was the first Catholic newscaster to join BBC Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1964 to join the brand-new BBC 2, and reported through the 1960s and 70s for flagship BBC programmes including Twenty-four Hours, Panorama, Midweek and Tonight. In between BBC engagements Denis worked for ITV's This Week from 1970 to 1972, and was head-hunted back to ITV in 1979 just in time to record a famous interview with Margaret Thatcher for TV Eye, on the eve of what became the Thatcher era in Britain. ...
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Belfast-born Denis Tuohy was the first Catholic newscaster to join BBC Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1964 to join the brand-new BBC 2, and reported through the 1960s and 70s for flagship BBC programmes including Twenty-four Hours, Panorama, Midweek and Tonight. In between BBC engagements Denis worked for ITV's This Week from 1970 to 1972, and was head-hunted back to ITV in 1979 just in time to record a famous interview with Margaret Thatcher for TV Eye, on the eve of what became the Thatcher era in Britain. politics right through to the 1990s, and in the course of his career interviewed many of the world's leading figures in politics and culture, including Michael Mac Liammoir, Duke Ellington, Salvador Allende, Richard Burton, the Shah of Iran, Muhammed Ali, Seamus Heaney and Mary Robinson. Medialand is the story of Denis Tuohy's journey of discovery through the turbulent history of our times
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Good. Book. Signed by Author(s) x-xiii, 321pp, white and b/w photographic cover with title in red and black to spine. Some shelfwear, covers slightly grubby. Signed by author at title page. Bar code sticker to bottom of rear cover. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
