biography
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| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Television journalist and politician, born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, EC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge and joined the BBC in 1962, becoming overseas reporter (1964–76), diplomatic correspondent (1976–7), chief North American correspondent (1977–89), Berlin correspondent (1989–93), Vienna correspondent (1993–4), and foreign affairs correspondent (1994–6). Awards include the Royal Television Society's Reporter of the Year (1976, 1992) and the Radio and Television Industries Club Newscaster of the Year (1995). He fought an ‘anti-sleaze’ campaign in the 1997 general election, and was returned - much to his own surprise, describing himself as an ‘accidental MP’ in his maiden speech - as Independent MP for Tatton. He failed to repeat his success in Brentwood and Ongar in the 2001 general election. |
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