Women Behind Bars with Trevor McDonald
11:00 pm - 12:00 am, Friday, March 20 on U&W (25)
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About this Broadcast
Part one of two. The veteran broadcaster follows life inside two prisons holding some of America's most notorious female criminals - Indiana Women's Prison and Rockville Correctional Facility in the same US state. Among the inmates he meets in the first edition are Sarah Pender, who went on the run while serving 110 years for double murder, before being captured four months later, and Martha Search, who is looking forward to getting to grips with modern technology when her 20-year sentence comes to an end
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Trevor McDonald
(Presenter)
Born:
August 16, 1939
in
Trinidad
Best Known For:
Being one of Britain's best-loved newsreaders.
Early-life:
Born George McDonald in Trinidad on August 16, 1939, he is the eldest of three children. His parents wanted them to be doctors, lawyers, engineers or famous cricketers. His sister became a lawyer in their home country and his brother is a radio broadcaster in Canada. McDonald claims he developed his famous speaking voice after listening to the BBC World Service as a child. His first journalism work was for local newspapers and a radio station in Trinidad.
Career:
McDonald joined the BBC World Service in London in 1969. He moved to ITN in 1973 and was the network's first black reporter. In the 1990s, he became the sole anchor of ITV's flagship News at Ten, travelled the globe and interviewed the famous and infamous, including Nelson Mandela, Saddam Hussein and President Clinton. He was knighted in 1999, the same year he launched ITV's Tonight With Trevor McDonald. He's also chaired the Nuffield Languages Inquiry into the future of language learning. He's received more awards than any other UK news broadcaster, and hosted chat show Trevor McDonald Meets... on ITV2. More recently, McDonald has presented a number of travel documentaries for ITV. Between 1995 and 2008, he was the presenter of the National Television Awards.
Quote:
'I frequently cry, especially when stories feature children of my son's age.'
Trivia:
Lenny Henry played a spoof version of McDonald, named Trevor McDonought, on the children's TV show Tiswas.
Stuart Cabb
(Director)
Lisa Keane
(Series producer)
