SPEAKER: SIR DAVID FROST

"He is the only person to have interviewed the last six Presidents of the United States and the last six Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom"

(The Times)

Sir David Frost's activities during his career have been so diverse that he has been described as a "one man conglomerate".

It is easy to see why: host and co-creator of That Was The Week That Was, producer of countless television programmes from A Gift of Song: The Music for UNICEF Concert to the Spectacular World of Guinness Records, author of 15 books, producer of eight films (including "Rogue Trader" with Ewan McGregor which is currently on world-wide release), publisher, lecturer, impresario and the joint founder of London Weekend Television and TV-AM.

Not to mention the fact that he is perhaps the best-known television interviewer in the world. His Nixon Interviews achieved "the largest audience for a news interview in history" (New York Times). In addition to their unprecedented impact in the United States, the interviews were also seen - either in English or dubbed into local languages - in almost every television nation in the world.

Landmark interviews have always been a feature of Sir David's remarkable career. Among the many world figures that he has interviewed are the six most recent British Prime Ministers (Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair), Prince Charles, The Duke of York, the Duchess of York and the Princess Royal in the United Kingdom; The six most recent Presidents of the United States; Henry Kissinger, Robert F Kennedy, Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney in North America; Robert Hawke, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam in Australia; Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto in Asia; and King Hussein, Golda Meir, Mosha Dayan, Menachem Begin, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak in the Middle East, and Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in Africa.

Outside the field of world affairs, the roster is equally impressive - from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward and Peter Ustinov, to Arthur Rubinstein, Woody Allen, Muhammed Ali and the Beatles.

Sir David Frost has been awarded all the major television awards - the Emmy award (for The David Frost Show - twice); the Royal Television Society Silver Medal and the Richard Dimbleby Award in the UK and, internationally, the Golden Rose of Montreux. He was knighted by HM The Queen in the New Year's Honours List of January 1993.

His latest book, published by Harper Collins, entitled David Frost, An Autobiography - Part One: From Congregations to Audiences became an immediate best-seller. In the past year, both the Museum of Broadcasting and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York have honoured him.