David Dunseith RIP

David Dunseith

Through some of the darkest days of the NI troubles and in the absence of a local political assembly, [Talkback] provided a forum for debate where no other existed.

BBC News online reports the sad news that David Dunseith has died. With a career spanning television and radio, UTV and BBC, the Sony award-winning journalist and presenter was perhaps most associated with presenting the lunch Talkback programme on Radio Ulster, before latterly moving to host Sunday’s Seven Days.


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