He presented BBC Television’s weekly arts series Omnibus and Radio 4’s Poetry Please, had his own talk show, presented The Celts (1987), a six-part television series, and created the Radio 4 series on the English language, Word of Mouth. In 1978 he inaugurated the weekly BBC radio series Bookshelf, in which he interviewed more than 1,400 authors, including John Updike, Margaret Atwood and Anthony Burgess. Frank Delaney, who has died aged 74, became a household name on the BBC as a reporter in Dublin during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, before moving to England, and later the United States, to make his mark in the literary world as a novelist and leading arts journalist.
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