Arthur Gordon Clough

Arthur Gordon Clough

(Arthur) Gordon Clough (26 August 1934 – 6 April 1996), was an English radio and presenter and journalist, primarily known for his work on BBC Radio 4.

A scholarship boy from Bolton School, he read French and Russian at Magdalen College, Oxford.He spent his National Service monitoring Soviet radio traffic in the Baltic Sea,and joined the BBC Russian Service.He was banned from entering the Soviet Union as an alleged former spy.

In 1968 he joined mainstream journalism and then studio presentation,working on "The World This Weekend", "PM" and "The World at One".

With his fluent Russian he moved back to front-line journalism at the time of the Gorbachev revolution,making a series of award-winning documentary programmes.

Clough also covered South Africa months after the release of Nelson Mandela,and for a season he presented Europhile, a European Affairs magazine on Radio 4.

He was a question setter for and the presenter of Round Britain Quiz.

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