Our Tutors - Graham Leach
Graham Leach has spent thirty years working in broadcast news, both studio presenting and reporting from world hot spots.
After joining the BBC as a graduate News Trainee, he spent several years based in Belfast covering the early stages of the recent troubles in Northern Ireland.
This was followed by a spell in London reporting on major national and international news stories. He reported on the Birmingham pub bombings, and interviewed President Idi Amin of Uganda at Entebbe airport ten days after the Israeli raid to free hostages. He spent seventeen years travelling the world as a BBC foreign correspondent with postings in Bonn, Beirut, Johannesburg and Brussels.
Graham was trapped in west Beirut for three months when the Israelis invaded in 1982. He witnessed the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. He was in East Berlin on the night the Wall came down in November 1989. He reported on the Maastricht treaty and Margaret Thatcher's battles with Brussels.
He has presented the flagship 'Today' programme, the breakfast programme on LBC and is now a freelance broadcast journalist. He has been involved in media training for ten years.
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