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Streets and Secret Places - Reflections of a News Reporter (Paperback)
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Streets and Secret Places - Reflections of a News Reporter (Paperback)
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Denis Tuohy had been a broadcaster in news and current affairs for
half a century when he was asked to contribute to BBC Radio
Ulster’s Thought for the Day in his native Belfast. A reporter
and presenter who had covered major stories around the world for
BBC’s Panorama and Tonight, ITV’s This Week and ITN news
was to move into uncharted territory. This book is a collection of
his Thought for the Day pieces over the past few years with a
linking commentary about his professional and personal life.
“Across my own wide landscape,” he says, “ I’ve been free
to make unprompted choices of subject and to communicate them, in
little more than a couple of minutes, to listeners in cars,
kitchens, care homes, as they face up to another
day.” The choices have been prompted by his
travels, by meeting famous names and by personal history. In her
memoirs Margaret Thatcher described their first encounter as
hostile but met him again in calmer circumstances. Richard
Burton told him he could no longer watch his beloved Wales play
rugby in case they might lose. Ireland’s rugby star Jack Kyle
said that his moments of inspired brilliance had “somehow
happened through him and he was
grateful.” He recalls a multi-faith
gathering in New York after the killing of Martin Luther King,
meeting an integrated Belfast singing group in apartheid South
Africa, and taking part as an actor in Over the Bridge, Sam
Thompson’s play about bigotry in the Belfast shipyard. Streets
and Secret Places is a mix of reflections that have featured
in Thought for the Day including insights that have come
with experience.
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