Harold Evans Now Singing American Praises on a Weekly Basis
Served as editor of the UK Times and Sunday Times. Former president and publisher of Random House. Editor-at-large of The Week magazine. Faithful husband and houseboy to Her Media Highness Tina Brown. Isn't the plate of Harold Evans full enough as is?
Apparently not: Starting today, Evans will start a weekly broadcast called Point of View, on BBC Radio 4. The program will be taking the place of Alistair Cooke's legendary Letter from America segment — which, after a record-setting six decades of regular broadcasting, came to a close with Cooke's death in 2004 (he was 95). Much like Cooke's program, Evans says, "I will talk a little bit about why I identify with America, why I fell in love with it even while being aware of its blemishes. I'm also going to talk about anti-Americanism," he says. And it seems that Evans is dead set on defending America from a lot of the international criticism that, he feels, is unfounded.
But of course Evans loves the USA. It's the land of dreams come true, the only place where a country boy can rise from the working-class streets of Manchester to a life of telling Tina Brown when to lay low.
