LB’S NOTE: Not the kind of post we usually run, but fascinating to someone like me who often has wondered whether spending my life working in TV was the wonderful gift it seemed to be – or aiding and abetting the, you know, devil. What do you think?
by Jonathan Maitland
How to sum up David Frost? The lazy writer’s friend, aka Wikipedia, calls him ‘an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host’. To which I would add only: ‘Britain’s first TV superstar.’ (To some he was also ‘The Bubonic Plagiarist’, but we won’t dwell on that.)