Wide-Eyed in Medialand by Denis Tuohy
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. As a reporter, Denis Tuohy travelled widely to cover key events in world 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. Reflective, compassionate and spiced with much good humour, Wide-eyed in Medialand is the story of Denis Tuohy's journey of discovery through the turbulent history of our times
'A fascinating account of a life full of incident and laughterDenis Tuohy spent 40 years in television, didn't waste a moment of it and seems to have enjoyed every minute.' MICHAEL PARKINSON 'Tuohy is a master storyteller. He has a journalist's eye for detail and writes with charm and unfailing wit.' TREVOR MCDONALD
DENIS TUOHY was born in Belfast in 1937. In April 1964 he blew out a candle in a London television studio to mark the birth of BBC 2 and was promptly nicknamed 'BBC Tuohy'. Over the next four decades the Belfast-born actor turned broadcaster was to cross countless other frontiers as a reporter and presenter for Panorama, This Week and many other features and documentaries on BBC and ITV. Internationally he has covered many of the biggest stories of the past half century, and has met some of its biggest names - from Orson Welles to Margaret Thatcher, from Muhammad Ali to cult leader Charles Manson's murderous 'family', from the Shah of Iran to Richard Burton. Back in Ireland he recently took up acting again and has appeared in RTE's top rated soap Fair City. He now lives in Cork.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856407499 |
| ISBN 10 | 0856407496 |
| Title | Wide-Eyed in Medialand |
| Author | Denis Tuohy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Colourpoint Creative Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-04-25 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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