Charles Wheeler : witness to the twentieth century / Shirin Wheeler ; foreword by Christiane Amanpour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wheeler, Shirin, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wheeler, Charles, 1923-2008.

Wheeler, Charles.

Foreign correspondents--Great Britain.

Foreign correspondents.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London, England : Manilla Press, an imprint of Zaffre Publishing Group, 2023.

Summary:

"A look at the major events of the twentieth century through the eyes of the man who witnessed it all: celebrated BBC foreign correspondent Charles Wheeler. 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 in the right place at the right time'. It was typical of Charles that he ran towards the sound of the gunshot while the crowd was running in the opposite direction. Wheeler's investigative skill and sense of judgement made him one of the most authoritative reporters of his generation. But what was it like to have been witness to the events that shaped our modern world? In this book - part memoir, part history, part reflection - his daughter, Shirin Wheeler, examines her father's journalistic legacy and brings her personal knowledge to bear on the project. She will tell the story of her father: a patient listener and forensic interrogator who was driven by curiosity and passion to report and expose injustice, and above all to give a voice to people ignored or unheard by many"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Beginnings: shaping the man

Cold War warrior

One cheer for democracy

Berlin revisited: in the shadow of the Wall

Protest and uprising in 1960s America

Conspiracy and cover-ups: the undoing of American presidents

Remaking Europe: the Brussels years

Home front: friends and neighbours

Voices from the edge

New horizons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781786581754

1786581752

OCLC:

1400089216