Category: Radio 4
Date: 31.05.2005
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Sir Harold Evans will present
A Point of View on 主播大秀 Radio 4 from 29 July 2005, for a
run of 13 weeks - bringing his unique experience and knowledge to a
UK audience.
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Harry Evans said: "I was eager to find 'the real America'
when I first crossed the Atlantic in the Fifties. Now I've lived here
for 20 years and I'm still searching.
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"I hope to get a little closer in the 13 weeks
and I hope listeners will join the random expeditions into its politics
and money, history, culture and personalities.
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"But a little indulgence, please. America doesn't
fit on a postcard. It is just too diverse, too exhilarating and too
maddening - and too big. England could fit seven times over into Texas.
Or so they tell me whenever I check into Dallas."
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Mark Damazer, Controller of Radio 4, said: "I'm delighted
Harry Evans has agreed to become one of the commentators who will contribute
to A Point Of View.
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"I believe listeners will be very well served by
his huge journalistic experience, his knowledge of politics and culture
on both sides of the Atlantic - and his humour".
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Once voted the best British newspaper editor of all
time, Evans symbolised a glorious age of investigative reporting in
the Sixties and Seventies. Then, in the America of the Eighties and
Nineties, he shot to fame in the world of publishing.
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With his wife Tina Brown at the helm of magazines
such as Vanity Fair and then the New Yorker, they became leaders of the US
media set.
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Now Evans has turned to writing history. He brings his
wide range of experience and knowledge to a UK audience on Radio 4.
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Harry Evans will present A Point of View on Radio
4 for 13 weeks from Friday 29 July at 8.50pm (the programme will
be repeated on Sundays at 8.50am).
