Inquisitor always had the last laugh

Regularly scoffed at by fellow broadcasters for his allegedly non-aggressive style, David Frost invariably almost always extracted more intriguing information and revealing reactions.

DAVID FROST — who probably interviewed more world figures from royalty, politics, the Church, show-business, and virtually everywhere else, than any other living broadcaster — was one of the most illustrious television inquisitors of his generation.

He not only won virtually all the major television awards available, but his professional activities were so diverse that he was once described as “a one-man conglomerate”.