Andrew Philip More Boyle (27 May 1919 – 22 April 1991) was a
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
journalist and biographer.
His biography of
Brendan Bracken won the
1974 Whitbread Awards
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and his book ''The Climate of Treason'' exposed
Anthony Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy.
Blunt was professor of art history at the University of London, dire ...
as the "Fourth Man" in the
Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring.
He was born in the Scottish city of
Dundee
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, and was educated at
Blairs College in
Aberdeen and the
University of Paris.
During the
Second World War he was part of Britain's military intelligence in the
Far East.
After the war he joined the
BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer.
In 1965 he was the founding editor of the
BBC Radio 4 programme ''
The World At One'' which "gained a reputation as one of the best informed news programs and won an audience of four million".
He also wrote the definitive biographies of
Lord Trenchard, the father of the
Royal Air Force and
Erskine Childers, Irish Nationalist and author.
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Boyle left uncompleted biographies on
John Moore-Brabazon (pioneering aviator and politician),
Moura Budberg
Maria Ignatievna von Budberg-Bönninghausen (russian: Мария (Мура) Игнатьевна Закревская-Бенкендорф-Будберг, ''Maria (Moura) Ignatievna Zakrevskaya-Benckendorff-Budberg'', née Zakrevskaya; February ...
(adventuress and spy),
Arthur "Bomber" Harris, and
Dick White (spymaster).
References
1919 births
1991 deaths
British Army personnel of World War II
People educated at Blairs College
Scottish historians
Scottish journalists
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