biography
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| British broadcaster and writer. He studied at Oxford, joined the RAF, and was shot down over The Netherlands, spending four years in a prisoner-of-war camp. His first novel, A Crowd Is Not Company (1947), reflected this experience and won him the Atlantic Award for literature. Other novels include The Impossible Shore (1949) and A Sign of the Times (1955). He worked for Picture Post (1948–51), and was a special correspondent for The Observer (1956–7) and The Sunday Times (1957–8). Joining the BBC, he worked on Panorama (1958–62). The recipient of the Richard Dimbleby Award (1976), his other major television work includes the series Ireland (1981), co-founding the breakfast programme for TV-AM (1983), and Channel 4's Seven Days (1984–8). His non-fiction books include The Green Flag (1972), Ireland: a History (1980), Trial and Error (1986), and The Laurel and the Ivy: Parnell and Irish Nationalism (1993). |
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