Artistes of the Month
Also featured: Sir David Frost, Sally Gunnell
Sir Steve Redgrave
Steven
Redgrave has proved himself one of the greatest athletes Britain has ever
produced.
He is one of the very few who have won Gold Medals at five consecutive
Olympic Games - Gold for the Coxed Fours in Los Angeles in 1984, followed
by Gold (with his previous partner Andy Holmes) in the Coxless Pairs at
Seoul in 1988, in 1992 with Matthew Pinsent for the Coxless Pairs, and
in 1996 again with Matthew at the Atlanta Games.
The pinnacle of his career came at the Sydney 2000 Olympics when he attained his fifth Gold Medal.
In addition to his Olympic successes, Steve has won many other honours
in the sport over the years, including many prizes as a junior rower and
competing and winning Henley Royal Regatta Diamond Sculls several times.
In 1986 Steve became a Triple Commonwealth Gold Medallist at Edinburgh,
winning the Single Scull, Coxless Pairs and Coxed Four. He has also won
three World Championship Golds, in 1986, 1987 and in 1991. His other sporting
interests include golf and winter sports. During the 1989/90 season, he
was a member of the British Bobsleigh Team.
Together with current partner Matthew Pinsent, Steve is the holder of the World Record in Coxless pairs set in Vienna in 1991 and the Olympic Record set in Barcelona in 1992.
In 1996, Steve was awarded the MBE in the New Year Honours List, and
the
CBE in 1998. He was knighted in the 2001 New Years Honours.
'Just a quick note to thank you for helping to secure Steve Redgrave
for our Conference yesterday. He was a great speaker and very well received
by the delegates - if funds allowed, I think they'd book him for everything!'
Sir Steve spoke at the RICS Management Conference in February 2008
'A real triumph! The client was thrilled with the final effect which
was exactly as we had planned. Sir Stephen Redgrave got a standing ovation.
Steve Rider & Juliet Morris were perfect for the role. Thanks for
all your efforts'
RS Live on Sir Stephen Redgrave
Sir David Frost
Sir David Frost OBE was born on 7 April 1939 in Tenterden, Kent and has
had a highly illustrious career in broadcasting and like many of his peers
was part of the Cambridge Footlights in his University days. He has not
only won all the major television awards, his professional activities
have been so diverse that he has been described as "a one man conglomerate."
Host and co-creator of That Was The Week That Was, producer of countless
television programs, author of 17 books, producer of seven films, publisher,
lecturer, impresario and the joint founder of two major network companies
in the United Kingdom, Sir David Frost is ubiquitous.
Sir David's interview of Richard Nixon was the most widely watched news
interview in the history of television. Shown in almost every televised
nation in the world, it garnered the largest audience ever achieved for
a new interview in the U.S.
Landmark interviews have always been the most prominent feature of Sir David's remarkable career. Among the many world figures that he has interviewed are the six most recent Presidents of the United States and the five most recent Prime Ministers of Britain as well as Prince Charles, the Duke and Duchess of York, and The Princess Royal of the United Kingdom, Robert F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger, Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney in North America; Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia; Robert Hawke, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam in Australia; Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto in Asia; King Hussein, Golda Meir, Moshe Dyan, Menachem Begin, Yassir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin in the Middle East; and President Nelson Mandela and former President F.W. de Klerk.
Outside the field of world affairs, the roster ranges from Orson Welles, Tennessee Williams, Noel Coward and Peter Ustinov to Arthur Rubinstein, Woody Allen, Muhammed Ali and the Beatles.
His many major television awards include two Emmy Awards (for The David Frost Show), the Royal Television Society Silver Medal and the Richard Dimbleby Award in the United Kingdom, and internationally, the Golden Rose of Montreux.
In 1988, Sir David undertook a 14-hour syndicated television series, The Next President With David Frost, featuring hour-long interviews with all the Presidential candidates.
Most recently, Sir David has garnered yet more attention for his outstanding PBS series, ...Talking with David Frost, which has attracted monthly news headlines and critical plaudits since it debut in January, 1991.
To date, the guests have included former President and Mrs. George Bush, Andrew Lloyd Webber, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Prime Minister John Major, Robin Williams, Margaret Thatcher, Ben Bradlee, Ted Turner, Elton John, Norman Mailer, Warren Beatty, Patrick J. Buchanan, Ross Perot, Governor Bill Clinton, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir John Gielgud, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Vice President Al Gore, Isaac Stern, Reverend Billy Graham, Clint Eastwood, President F.W. de Klerk , Nelson Mandela, Chief Mangosutho Buthelezi, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, President Carlos Salinas, Salman Rushdie, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat, Garth Brooks and Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
To inaugurate the 1991-93 series of ...Talking with David Frost" Sir David interviewed all of the Vice- Presidential and Presidential candidates. The 90-minute Presidential broadcast was the last interview by any interviewer with all three candidates before election day, and the only single program to feature all three.
Commenting on, ..Talking with David Frost, Rick Kogan of The Chicago Tribune wrote, "Few interviewers have been as consistently well-prepared, bright and engaging as David Frost. His Talking with David Frost, is a PBS gem".
Sir David's television production company, David Paradine Television, Inc., has produced many specials including A Gift of Song: The Music for UNICEF Concert Spitting Image" with its satirical puppets, Peeping Times with David Letterman, John Cleese's How To Irritate People and the The Spectacular World of Guinness Records.
In January, 1993, Sir David's Sunday news program was launched on the BBC and ran for 12 years during which time it was widely considered to be the most authoritative weekly news interview. He is the author of (with co-author Michael Shea) The Mid-Atlantic Companion and The Rich Tide, an in- depth study of the Americans who have most influenced Britian and the Britons who have most influenced America. In the Fall of 1993, the first volume of Sir David's memoirs, David Frost: An Autobiography, Part I-From Congregations to Audiences, was published and became an immediate bestseller.
In 2005 Sir David Frost was awarded the Bafta Academy Fellowship. Frost's
last Bafta, the Richard Dimbleby Award, had been awarded as far back as
1967.
On May 29, 2005 Sir David Frost presented his final Breakfast with Frost
after 500 editions and now presents Frost over the World on Al-Jazeera
International.
Margaret Thatcher described Sir David Frost as a "giant in his profession",
while Tony Blair said of him, "Although his questioning was always
courteous, he always managed to get reams of information out of you".
Sally
Gunnell 
Sally Gunnell OBE has a special place in the nation's hearts as one of Britain's most popular female sportspeople. She is the only woman ever to hold four major track titles concurrently - Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth.
Following her retirement from international athletics, Sally developed a new career as a television presenter and motivational speaker. She has written four books on fitness, health, self-fulfilment and well-being. She is married to Jon and is mum to three young sons; Finley, Luca and Marley.
"Winning Olympic Gold in Barcelona in 1992 was a massive achievement. I reached the pinnacle of my sport. I very quickly realised that the huge challenge of getting there was going to be dwarfed by the demands of staying at the top. The pressure on me at the Stuttgart World Championships in 1993 was immense. All of my competitors were improving fast and the public expectation of me was sky high. Despite this, I ended up becoming World Champion and setting a new world record.
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