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Mark Carruthers
File:Mark Carruthers.jpg
Alma materQueen's University Belfast
Occupation(s)Broadcaster and Journalist

Mark Carruthers OBE (born 1965) is a Northern Irish broadcaster and journalist. He currently presents a number of television and radio programmes for BBC Northern Ireland.[1] [2]

Broadcasting work

Carruthers first joined BBC Northern Ireland in 1989[1] as a freelance contributing to Good Morning Ulster and PM Ulster on BBC Radio Ulster.[3]

In addition to having presented BBC Newsline, he has also presented Spotlight and Let's Talk for television and Evening Extra on BBC Radio Ulster.[1]

In August 2009, Carruthers became part of the presenting team of Good Morning Ulster as part of a series of presenter changes at BBC Radio Ulster.[4]

He is now the presenter of The View[5] and Sunday Politics Northern Ireland.[6] He also presents the regular BBC Two Northern Ireland programme Stormont Today, a half-hour analysis of the day's debates at the Northern Ireland Assembly.[7]

He has twice been nominated for a Royal Television Society award for his work – in 2018 and previously in 2003. In 2005 he and his BBC Newsline co-presenter, Donna Traynor, lifted a prestigious IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) for Best News Programme.

Personal life

Carruthers was born in Derry, grew up in Limavady, County Londonderry and studied at Coleraine Academical Institution[8] and went on to study Political Science and Irish Politics at Queen's University, Belfast.[1]

Carruthers has an interest in the theatre. He was one of the founders of Tinderbox Theatre Company in 1988 [8] and took part in drama groups at college and university, including a stage appearance in a Riverside Theatre, Coleraine production of Oliver! alongside James Nesbitt.[8] He was Chairman of the Lyric Players' Theatre Board until 2015 and was at the forefront of the campaign to rebuild the theatre on its south Belfast site for almost ten years.[1][9] He was awarded an OBE for services to Drama in Northern Ireland in the 2011 New Year Honours List.

He is co-editor of Stepping Stones - The Arts in Ulster 1971-2001 which was published by Blackstaff Press. His latest publication, Alternative Ulsters – Conversations on Identity, a collection of interviews with leading writers, actors, journalists and politicians, was published by Liberties Press in Dublin in late 2013 and was re-issued in paperback in December 2014. In March 2015 Alternative Ulsters was shortlisted for the prestigious Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize.

Carruthers is married with three children and lives in south Belfast.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f BBCi: BBC Newsline - Meet The Team: Mark Carruthers' profile
  2. ^ http://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2016/09/17/news/mark-carruthers-confessions-of-a-political-anorak-696772/
  3. ^ Belfast Telegraph: "Mark: 'I'm a real morning person'"; dated 31 August 2009, accessed 7 April 2010
  4. ^ BBC Press Office: "Radio Ulster makes presenter changes to news and current affairs programmes" dated 11 August 2009; accessed 6 April 2010
  5. ^ "The View - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
  6. ^ "Sunday Politics Northern Ireland - Mark Carruthers - BBC One". BBC. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
  7. ^ "Stormont Today - BBC Two". BBC. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
  8. ^ a b c The Belfast Telegraph: "My passion": dated 29 December 1998; accessed 9 February 2009
  9. ^ Lyric Theatre - Education Programme Archived 2009-02-17 at the Wayback Machine: accessed 9 February 2009
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