Robin Lustig

Is Anything Happening? (eBook, ePUB)

My Life as a Newsman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the days before mobile phones, the internet and 24-hour news channels, the easiest way for a British foreign correspondent to find out what was going on in the world was to phone the local office of Reuters news agency and ask: 'Is anything happening?'

That's how the award-winning BBC reporter and presenter Robin Lustig started out in journalism, working for Reuters as an agency man. During a distinguished career spanning more than forty years, he watched the world of news change beyond recognition, as he reported on terror attacks, wars and political coups.

In this witty and illuminating memoir, Lustig looks back on his life as a newsman, from coming under fire in Pakistan to reporting on the fall of the Berlin Wall; from meeting Nelson Mandela to covering Princess Diana's sudden death.

Back in the studio, Lustig lets us in through the BBC's back door for a candid, behind-the-scenes look at some of his triumphs and disasters working for the nation's favourite broadcaster. He writes of his childhood as the son of refugees from Nazi Germany and, drawing on thirty years of reporting about the Middle East, he comes to a startling conclusion about the establishment of the state of Israel.

Astute, incisive and frequently hilarious, Is Anything Happening? is both an irresistible personal memoir and an insightful reflection on world events over the past forty-five years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785902086
• Artikelnr.: 47445366

Autorenporträt

Robin Lustig is a British journalist and radio broadcaster. He started his career in journalism as foreign correspondent with the news agency Reuters, before moving onto The Observer for twelve years. He joined the BBC in 1989, presenting programmes such as The World Tonight, Newsstand, Stop Press and File on 4 for Radio 4, and Newshour on the BBC World Service. In 2013, he received the Charles Wheeler award for outstanding contribution to broadcast journalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Day the World Changed
Chapter 2 From Scud FM to Wills and Kate
Chapter 3 The Good, the Bad...
Chapter 4 War and Peace
Chapter 5 Departures and Arrivals
Chapter 6 A Suburban Childhood
Chapter 7 From Kampala to Campus
Chapter 8 Agency Man
Chapter 9 The Observer
Chapter 10 Tiny vs Tiny
Chapter 11 Are You Jewish?
Chapter 12 At Last the BBC
Chapter 13 Lahore, Lagos and Louisville, KY
Chapter 14 Quite Big in Boston
Chapter 15 On Being William Boot
Chapter 16 En Route to My Roots
Chapter 17 And Finally...
Epilogue