Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News. Foreword by Christiane Amanpour

Author: Shirin Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's trouble spots. Present at many of the key episodes of the twentieth century, he had - as a BBC manager noted after the shooting of George Wallace, Presidential candidate and Governor of Alabama, on 15 May 1972, 'a knack of being...Read more