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David Frost is a diverse, long-lasting and innovatory performer on TV. From his earliest days on "That Was The Week That Was" - the show which turned TV in a new direction - to his recent interviews of presidents and prime ministers he has never been far from the centre of events. This autobiography gives the author's own account of the foundation of London Weekend TV and the beginnings of his business interests. But it is in interviewing that David Frost has made an impression and in this book he describes encounters with Moshe Dayan, Sir Oswald Mosley, Cardinal Heenan, Rupert Murdoch, Jane Fonda, Jesse Jackson and Adam Clayton Powell. They ... illuminate some of the great questions of his time - drugs, racism, the decline of religious faith - and capture the moods of England and America in the 1960s.
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Sir David Frost's landmark interviews have always been a feature of his remarkable career. Among the many world figures that he has interviewed are the six most recent British Prime Ministers (Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair), Prince Charles, The Duke of York, the Duchess of York and the Princess Royal in the United Kingdom; The six most recent Presidents of the United States; Henry Kissinger, Robert F Kennedy, Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney in North America; Robert Hawke, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam in Australia; Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto in Asia; and King Hussein, Golda Meir, Mosha Dayan, Menachem Begin, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak in the Middle East, and Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in Africa. Outside the field of world affairs, the roster is equally impressive - from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward and Peter Ustinov, to Arthur Rubinstein, Woody Allen, Muhammed Ali and the Beatles.
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Sir 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: host and co-creator and producer of countless television programmes; author of 15 books; producer of eight films; publisher, lecturer, impresario and the joint founder of London Weekend Television and TV-am. Not to mention the fact that he is perhaps the best known television interviewer in the world. His Nixon Interviews achieved “the largest audience for a news interview in history” (New York Times).
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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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Sir David Frost is the only person to have interviewed the last seven Presidents of the United States and the last six prime ministers of Great Britain. He has been awarded all the major television awards including the Emmy Award (twice, for The David Frost Show) in the US and the BAFTA Fellowship in the UK, their highest honor. Often described as "a one-man conglomerate", Sir David has worked variously as an author, film and television producer, publisher, lecturer and impresario and co-founded two network companies in the United Kingdom, LWT and TV-am.
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Sir David Frost has been a television personality and journalist since the early 1960's with his involvement in several BBC programs, including "That Was the Week That Was," "The Frost Report," and "Breakfast with Frost." Sir David Frost has interviewed the last seven American presidents and the last six British prime ministers. He is currently the host of the Al Jazeera English program, "Frost Over the World."
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