David Frost

David Frost: Profile

Sir David Frost has had a highly illustrious career in broadcasting and like many of his peers was part of the Cambridge Footlights in his University days. He has not only won all the major television awards, his professional activities have been so diverse that he has been described as “a one man conglomerate.”

Sir David currently hosts Frost over the World for Al Jazeera, examining world events and exploring global issues of the day.

Host and co-creator of That Was The Week That Was, producer of countless television programs, author of 17 books, producer of seven films, publisher, lecturer, impresario; he was later a co-founder and presenter of the UK breakfast television station, TV-am in 1983 and presented 500 editions of the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost for the BBC.

Sir David’s interview of Richard Nixon was the most widely watched news interview in the history of television. Shown in almost every televised nation in the world, it garnered the largest audience ever achieved for a new interview in the U.S.

In 1988, Sir David undertook a 14-hour syndicated television series, The Next President With David Frost, featuring hour-long interviews with all the Presidential candidates.

In January, 1993, Sir David’s Sunday news program was launched on the BBC and is widely considered to be the most authoritative weekly news interview. He is the author of (with co-author Michael Shea) The Mid-Atlantic Companion and The Rich Tide, an in-depth study of the Americans who have most influenced Britain and the Britons who have most influenced America.

In 2005 Sir David Frost was awarded the Bafta Academy Fellowship. Frost’s last Bafta, the Richard Dimbleby Award, had been awarded as far back as 1967. On May 29, 2005 Sir David Frost presented his final Breakfast with Frost after 500 editions.

Lady Margaret Thatcher described Sir David Frost as a “giant in his profession.” Tony Blair said of Frost, “Although his questioning was always courteous, he always managed to get reams of information out of you”.