Tomorrow, May 6, is a big day for Britain’s King Charles III. It’s his coronation day.
Charles, of course, succeeded to the throne when his mother, Queen Elizabeth, passed away last year.
Now, at age 74, Charles is ready to officially become king.
Since 1981, British journalist and author Andrew Morton has been following the royal family. In 1991, he wrote a book called iIside Buckingham Palace, billed as an inside glimpse into the private lives of the royals.
Now keeping in mind that this interview took place 32 years ago, things may have changed, but this is a look at what Buckingham Palace was like in the early 1990s.
So here now, from 1991, journalist. Andrew Morton.
In 1981. Christine Craft was working as a television news anchor for a station in Kansas City, Missouri. Six months into her two-year contract, she was demoted from the anchor desk, because of the findings of a focus group.
The TV station had hired a team of outside researchers to find out what Kansas City viewers thought of. Christine Craft. And what they found was starling.
The focus group said that Christine was too old, not very attractive, and didn’t properly defer to men.
Well, she left the station, then filed a federal discrimination lawsuit. I’ll let her tell you, in a few minutes, what happened next.
I met her in 1988, after she wrote a book whose title was based on that focus group research. It was called Too Old, Too Ugly, and Not Deferential to Men
So here now, from 1988, Christine Craft.
Christine Craft is 79 now, and lives in Northern California, where she practices law and is a part-time radio talk show host.
Fifty years ago this week a group of burglars broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC.
They were sent there by – and paid by – operatives working to re-elect President Richard M. Nixon.
Those DNC offices were located in a Washington complex called The Watergate, where a security guard. found the burglars and caught them.
And the whole thing might have been successfully covered up, if not for the relentless pursuit of the story but two young Washington Post reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.
Backed by their editor Ben Bradlee, and the paper’s publisher, Katharine Graham, Woodward and Bernstein eventually unraveled the scandal now known simply as Watergate.
It was a time that changed American politics, and American journalism, permanently.
Each of the interviews will be featuring this week on Now. I’ve Heard Everything is centered on one figure from the Watergate scandal.
On Wednesday, my conversations with the former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, who was a central figure in the conspiracy and cover-up.
And then on Friday, the man often called the mastermind of the DNC break-in, former FBI agent and Nixon operative G. Gordon Liddy.
But first, in today’s episode, the iconic and renowned Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. He took over at the Post in 1965, in the thick of Vietnam, the civil Rights movement and a changing journalism landscape.
And although Watergate may be the thing he is best remembered for now, it was not the only major story he was involved in.
I met Ben Bradlee in 1995, when he wrote his autobiography, a book called A Good Life.
She is one of the most visible faces in television news. For 15 years she has co-hosted MSNBC’s Morning Joe program.
But before that, Mika Brzezinski ;s future in television news was anything but certain. In fact, she wasn’t sure she had a future.
Through a little bit of luck, a lot of hard work, and a persistence that just wouldn’t give up, Brzezinski earned her way back into TV news, and eventually the Morning Joe co-host slot.
I met her in 2010 when she wrote a memoir that was also a motivational book for women called All Things at Once.
So here now, from 2010, Mika Brzezinski .
Mika Brzezinski celebrated her 55th birthday last month. She and her first husband divorced in 2016. She’s been married to her MSNBC co-host Joe Scarborough since 2018.
For more than half a century, Frank Deford wrote for Sports Illustrated magazine and for 37 of those years he was also heard regularly on NPR, and seen on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
Six times, Deford was voted national sports writer of the year by the National Sportscasters and Sports Writers Association.
But after all those years it took him until 2012 to finally write his memoir, a book. He called Over Time.
I had met Frank a couple of times before that, but it was nice to see him again to talk about his book as we sat and chatted in a Washington DC hotel lobby.
If you haven’t, maybe you should. It might be good for your health.
So says TV journalist. Deborah Norville.
In 2007, the anchor of inside edition wrote a book about gratitude, thankfulness, and how that can actually change. Not just your attitude, but you’re very health.
I have the chance to speak with her for a few minutes about that book. So here now, from 2007, Deborah Norville.
Deborah Norville is 63. She’s been anchor of TV’s “Inside Edition” since 1995
In 1969, shortly after he graduated from college, Thomas Boswell joined the staff of the Washington Post. Over the next 15 years he honed his craft as a sportswriter, eventually earning his own column in the post in 1984.
What Boswell brought to his columns was more than just an account of balls and Strikes, touchdowns and field goals, holes-in-one or hat-tricks.
He brought a literary sensibility, often diving deep into the personal lives of the sports stars, and would be stars, that he covered.
Oh, he knew all the technical stuff, but his real strength was his ability to bring out the personalities.
I interviewed Tom Boswell many times over the years, including this interview from 1994, for his book Crackimg The Show.
And, like all of Tom Boswell’s columns, I think this interview has stood the test of time. Well, you tell me.
So here now, from 1994, Tom Boswell.
Tom Boswell is 73 now. He retired from the Washington Post at the end of June this year, after 52 years never working for any paper other than the Washington Post.
Young journalist David Brinkley first came to Washington, D.C. in 1943, just as World War II was transforming the nation’s capital.
The sleepy Southern town that had been home to a small federal government suddenly burgeoned into a major city filled with office buildings, bureaucracy, lobbyists, and lots of money.
After the wa, in 1956, NBC paired Brinkley with Chet Huntley to co-anchor their nightly news.
After leaving NBC in the 1970s, Brinkley joined ABC, where he was the founding host of the Sunday morning show “This Week.” He retired in 1997.
It was in the late 1980s that Brinkley wrote his first book, on account of the War years called Washington Goes to War. It became a major bestseller. And that’s when I met him.
