Splashed!: A Life from Print to Panorama

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Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous revelation of the events that marked an extraordinary life in journalism.

Mangold describes his National Service in Germany, where he worked part-time as a smuggler, through his years in the 1950s on Fleet Street's most ruthless newspapers, a time when chequebook journalism ruled and shamelessness was a major skill. Recruited by the BBC, he spent forty years as a broadcaster, developing a reputation for war reporting and major investigations.

From world exclusives with fallen women in the red-top days to chaotic interviews with Presidents, Splashed! offers a rare glimpse of the personal triumphs and disasters of a life in reporting, together with fascinating revelations about the stories that made the headlines on Mangold's remarkable journey from print to Panorama.

Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC TV's flagship current affairs programme Panorama and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed! is the 'antidote to the conventional journalist's autobiography' - a compelling, hilarious and raucous revelation of the events that marked an extrao...

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Sonoko Smith
December 10, 2016
I read splashed on a flight to Japan. Entertained me the whole trip. Riveting stories... funny and tragic. brutally honest. The unusual usage of Dettol cracked me up...Good thing I had my seat belt buckled up. Every budding journalist should read this book to learn how it's done. Listen-up Ryerson school of Journalism students! Splashed should be part of your curriculum. I'm in the book too! And Tom Mangold is one of a few people who really understood and got the story right. I'm forever grateful. Read this book... you're bound to like it.
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About the author

Tom Mangold is a British broadcaster, journalist and author. He worked on both 24 Hours and Midweek before becoming an investigative journalist with the BBC Panorama current affairs television programme for twenty-six years. Mangold has been described in The Times as 'the doyen of broadcasting reporters'.

Tom Mangold is a British broadcaster, journalist and author. He worked on both 24 Hours and Midweek before becoming an investigative journalist with the BBC Panorama current affairs television programme for twenty-six years. Mangold has been described in The Times as 'the doyen of broadcasting re...

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