Sir David Frost leaves £13m to loved ones

Sir David Frost leaves £13m to loved ones

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BROADCASTING icon Sir David Frost left a £13million fortune to his loved ones.

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Sir David Paradine Frost, OBE (7 April 1939 – 31 August 2013) was an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host.

After graduating from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Frost rose to prominence in the UK when he was chosen to host the satirical programme That Was the Week That Was in 1962. His success on this show led to work as a host on US television. He became known for his television interviews with senior political figures, among them The Nixon Interviews with former United States President Richard Nixon in 1977, which were adapted into a stage play and film.

Frost was one of the "Famous Five" who were behind the launch of ITV breakfast station TV-am in 1983. For the BBC, he hosted the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005. He spent two decades as host of Through the Keyhole. From 2006 to 2012 he hosted the weekly programme Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly programme The Frost Interview.

Frost died on 31 August 2013, aged 74, on board the cruise ship MS Queen Elizabeth, on which he had been engaged as a speaker. In March 2014, his memorial stone was unveiled in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey for his contribution to British culture

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Sir David Frost

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David Frost Biography

Talk Show Host (1939–2013)

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Sir David Frost obituary

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/01/sir-david-frost

Frost over the World - Carlos Acosta - 8 May 09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXPfx4N6Tec

T he Cuban ballet dancer, Carlos Acosta, joins Sir David to talk about his rag to riches story. One of eleven children born to a truck driver in Havana, a wayward childhood led his father to send him to ballet school at the age of nine. He went on to join Englands Royal Ballet and become an international dance superstar.

The Frost Interview - Carlos Acosta: From pauper to prince

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmmH_I9XsI

Sir David Frost travels to Havana, Cuba, to meet the world's most celebrated male ballet dancer in his homeland.Carlos Acosta's family was desperately poor. Pedro, his father, had fallen in love with ballet when as a young man, he had sneaked into a cinema that was reserved for whites to watch grainy pictures of ballet dancers. When Pedro heard that Cuba's ballet schools offered free food, he sent his son Carlos off to ballet school."I wanted to become a footballer ... but obviously my father had different plans," Acosta tells Sir David.

Carlos Acosta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgoz0wWJUQE

Carlos Acosta Principal Dancer at the Royal Ballet Covent Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd555dm6xjI

There is a guaranteed collective intake of breath when Carlos Acosta leaps on stage. No wonder, as he is the Royal Ballet's new King of Dance, a sizzling Cuban firecracker, hailed by some as the Latin Rudolf Nureyev.

In fact, he causes such a sensation on stage that this classy performer has now been given his own show.

We are lucky that he is on the stage before us at all. As a boy, Acosta resisted his father's attempts to steer him away from poverty and a life of crime by turning him into a dancer but, in the end, ballet chose him. He is now regarded as the leading male dancer of his generation.

"I knew I had something from the start," he admits. "I would skip classes for weeks or even months but when I came back, I was always way up there with high scores.

"If my father hadn't pushed me into ballet, I would have fallen into crime, for sure. I would probably have been involved in stealing and would most likely have tried to escape to the USA on a raft. I know people who did it and they survived, but many drowned."

As a boy, he played truant, became a break-dancing champion and played football in the streets. He secretly applied to join one of the football academies set up by Fidel Castro but was turned down. When he looks now at the discipline demanded of ballet dancers and compares it with the hedonistic lives of some of our top footballers, whose exploits too often bring shame on the sport, does he think it is all wasted on them?

He shrugs and runs a hand through his cocoa-coloured curls: "Maybe. But what can you do? I don't envy them but there is so much work involved in dance and the corps de ballet dancers and even soloists are quite badly paid. Top footballers can make in a month what some dancers earn in their whole career."

The Rising Star of Cuban Ballet Part 1 of 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKmWGhuA3DI

The Rising Star of Cuban Ballet Part 2 of 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLY2Rp8VBGM

Sir David Frost and Carlos Acosta