Michael Deakin, Esq

Career: writer, documentary and film maker; fndr ptnr Editions Alecto (fine art publishers) 1960-64, prodr BBC Radio Current Affairs Dept 1964-68, prodr then editor Documentary Unit Yorkshire TV 1968-81; prodns incl: Out of Shadow into the Sun - The Eiger, Struggle for China, Whicker's World - Way Out West, Johnny Go Home (Br Acad award, 1976), David Frost's Global Village, The Frost Interview - The Shah, Act of Betrayal 1987, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less 1989, Secret Weapon 1990, Doomsday Gun 1993, The Good King 1994; fndr memb TV-am Breakfast Time Consortium 1980; TV-am: dir of progs 1982-84, memb Bd 1984-85, conslt 1984-87; dir Griffin Productions Ltd 1985-, sr vice-pres Paramount/Revcom 1987-93

Books and Publications: Restif de la Bretonne - Les Nuits de Paris (translated with Nicholas Deakin, 1968), Gaetano Donizetti (1968), Tom Grattan's War (1970), The Children on the Hill (1972, 9 edn 1982), Johnny Go Home (with John Willis, 1976), The Arab Experience (with Antony Thomas, 1975, 2 edn 1976), Flame in the Desert (1976), I Could Have Kicked Myself (with David Frost, 1982), Who Wants to be Millionaire (with David Frost, 1983), If You'll Believe That You'll Believe Anything... (1986)