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==Early life, education and early career==
==Early life, education and early career==
Hanrahan in the county of [[Middlesex]], Hanrahan received his formal education at [[St Ignatius' College|St Ignatius]], [[Stamford Hill]], in [[Tottenham]]. He subsequently studied politics at the [[University of Essex]], where he was a member of an amateur dramatic society.
Hanrahan was born in the county of [[Middlesex]] on 22 March 1949. He received his formal education at [[St Ignatius' College|St Ignatius]], [[Stamford Hill]], in [[Tottenham]], and subsequently studied Politics at the [[University of Essex]], where he was a member of an amateur dramatic society.


In 1970 he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a photographic stills clerk. He was one of the six News Trainees appointed by the B.B.C. in 1971 and went on to become a scriptwriter, and then a Duty Editor in the BBC Television Newsroom. He worked for a spell as the B.B.C.'s Northern Ireland correspondent reporting on the [[The Troubles|paramilitary war in Ulster]].
In 1970 he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a photographic stills clerk. He was one of the six news trainees appointed by the B.B.C. in 1971, and went on to become a news scriptwriter with the organization, and then a Duty Editor in the BBC Television Newsroom. He worked for a spell as the B.B.C.'s Northern Ireland correspondent reporting on the [[The Troubles|paramilitary war in Ulster]].


==Falklands War==
==Falklands War==

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Brian Hanrahan
Born(1949-03-22)22 March 1949
Middlesex, England
Died20 December 2010(2010-12-20) (aged 61)
England
Occupation(s)Journalist, television presenter
Years active1969–2010
Notable credit(s)BBC News
Falklands War

Brian Hanrahan (22 March 1949 – 20 December 2010)[1] was a British television journalist, who was the Diplomatic News Editor for the British Broadcasting Corporation.[2]

Early life, education and early career

Hanrahan was born in the county of Middlesex on 22 March 1949. He received his formal education at St Ignatius, Stamford Hill, in Tottenham, and subsequently studied Politics at the University of Essex, where he was a member of an amateur dramatic society.

In 1970 he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation as a photographic stills clerk. He was one of the six news trainees appointed by the B.B.C. in 1971, and went on to become a news scriptwriter with the organization, and then a Duty Editor in the BBC Television Newsroom. He worked for a spell as the B.B.C.'s Northern Ireland correspondent reporting on the paramilitary war in Ulster.

Falklands War

As a reporter Hanrahan was sent to join the press corps attached to the Task Force dispatched by the Government of the United Kingdom to liberate the Falkland Islands after an invasion of them by Argentina in early 1982. Traveling with the Task Force Southwards throught eh Atlantic Ocean aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, Hanarahan produced in his televised reporting from the ship the most memorable journalistic moment of the war, when during a broadcast reporting on an early air strike launched by aircraft operating from Hermes, to work a way around reporting restrictions in operation upon him from the military command, he reported:[3]:

I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I counted them all back.

Hanrahan later went ashore on the Falklands during the land campaign, and reported from the frontline whilst personally under fire, and was present at the liberation of Port Stanley by British Forces on 14 June 1982, which ended the war.

Later career

During the 1980s, Hanrahan was based in Hong Kong, then in Moscow in the 1980s and 1990s. He was a critic of communism, and once stated that "Europe has a lot to thank Mikhail Gorbachev for".[4] He commentated on the handover of Hong Kong in 1997 and the funeral of Yasser Arafat in 2004.

Death

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Hanarahan died of cancer on 20 December 2010 in his 62nd year.[5][1] Martin Bell wrote of him in an obituary published in The Guardian: In the world of television news, where inflated egos are not unknown, Brian Hanrahan stood out for his modesty as well as his way with words'.

Publications

  • I counted them all out and I counted them all back - The Battle for the Falkland Islands (1982). (Co-authored with Robert Fox).

References

  1. ^ a b "BBC correspondent Brian Hanrahan dies at 61". BBC News. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  2. ^ [1] [dead link‍]
  3. ^ Hanrahan, Brian (31 March 2007). "The Falkland Islands way". BBC News. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
  4. ^ Hanrahan, Brian (1 April 2009). "Gorbachev's role in 1989 turmoil". BBC. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
  5. ^ {{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2010/12/brian_hanrahan.html%7Ctitle=Brian Hanrahan|author=Jon Williams|publisher=BBC News|date=20 December 2010|accessdate=20 December 2010}}

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