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David Frost: Profile

World Reknowned Journalist & Businessman

David Frost's activities during his career have been so diverse that he has been described as a "one man conglomerate" - it is easy to see why. David was host and co-creator of That Was The Week That Was, producer of countless television programmes from A Gift of Song: The Music for the UNICEF Concert to Spectacular World of Guinness Records. He has authored15 books, produced seven films and is the joint founder of London Weekend Television and TV am. Not to mention that he is a publisher, lecturer, impresario and undoubtedly the best known television interviewer in the world.

His Nixon Interviews achieved "...the largest audience for a news interview inhistory" (New York Times). In addition to their unprecedented impact in the US, the interviews were also seen either in English or dubbed into local languages - in almost every television nation in the world. The same pattern of world-wide distribution was repeated when he conducted the only interview with the late Shar of Iran in exile.

Landmark interviews have always been a part of Sir David's remarkable career. Among the many world figures that he has interviewed are the five most recent Prime Ministers of Britain, Prince Charles, The Duke of York, The Duchess of York, and The Princess Royal in the UK.

Overseas he has interviewed the five most recent Presidents of the United States, Henry Kissinger, Robert F Kennedy, Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney in North America, Bob Hawke, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam in Australia, Indira Gandhi and Ali Bhutto in Asia and King Hussein, Golda Meir, Moshe Dayan, Menachem Begin and Yassar Arafat in the Middle East.

Outside the field of world affairs the roster is equally impressive - from Orson Wells, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward and Peter Ustinov to Arthur Rubinstein, Woody Allen, Mohammed Ali and The Beatles.

Sir David has been awarded all the major television awards: the Emmy Award for The David Frost Show, the Royal Television Society Silver Medal, the Richard Dimbleby Award, and the Golden Rose of Montreux.

Sir David's two most recent books have a strong Anglo-American flavor, one humorous, The Mid-Atlantic Companion and another The Rich Tide, an in-depth study of the Americans who have most influenced Britain and the Britons who have most influenced America.

Among his recent journalistic achievements have been the 13 part series of interviews with all the 1988 US Presidential candidates entitled, The Next President, which was topped off with an exclusive, in-depth interview on the eve of the election with the then Vice-President Bush and Governor Michael Dukakis; the first live interview with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan after she had been sworn in as the first woman Prime Minister of an Islamic nation; a one hour review of world prospects for the 1990's with the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, shown in the UK and on the NBC Today show in the States.

He also conducted the first in-depth interview of 1990 with Mrs Thatcher that September and John Major gave his first lengthy interview as Prime Minister on Frost on Sunday in the beginning of January 1991, and again in January 1992 after his first year at 10 Downing Street.

In addition to Frost on Sunday, his weekly program broadcast on live TV am featuring the leading newsmakers of the week, Frost hostsThrough the Keyhole for the ITV network. For BBC Radio 2 he has hosted five series of the popular comedy quiz, Pull The Other One. For BSB's Now Channel, he hosted the inaugural programme, Satellite Express, and the second of those specials.

David's highly acclaimed monthly hour-long American series,...Talking With David Frost, began in January 1991 with an interview with ex-President and Mrs Bush; the February program featured Andrew Lloyd Webber; his subject in March was General Norman Schwarzkopf talking from the war room in Riyadh; and the April interview took place at 10 Downing Street with the Prime Minister The Rt. Hon John Major, MP. The subject in May was the comedian and actor Robin Williams; the first series ended in June with The Rt. Hon Margaret Thatcher.

The second series which started in September has included Ben Bradlee, former editor of The Washington Post; Ted Turner, head of CNN; Elton John, Norman Mailer and Warren Beatty. The programs are again being shown in the UK on Sky News.

Sir David Frost is married to the former Lady Carina Fitzalan Howard, second daughter to the Duke of Norfolk. They have three sons; Miles, Wilfred and George. Host gratitude for three healthy children is the main motivation for his work on behalf of Birthright, a charity which researches into premature birth, infant death and infertility, and whose patron was The Princess Of Wales.

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