Andrew Boyle

Andrew Boyle

Andrew Philip More Boyle (27 May 1919 – 22 April 1991) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. His biography of Brendan Bracken won the 1974 Whitbread Awards and his book "The Climate of Treason" exposed Anthony Blunt as the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring.

He was born in the Scottish city of Dundee and was educated at Blairs in Aberdeen and the University of Paris. During the Second World War he was part of Britain's military intelligence in the Far East. After the war he joined the BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer.cite news |title=Andrew Boyle, Author, 71, Dies; Helped Expose a Top British Spy |author= |publisher=Associated Press |date=1991-04-25 |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D9133EF936A15757C0A967958260 |accessdate=2008-06-19] In 1965 he was the founding editor of the BBC Radio 4 programme "The World At One" which "gained a reputation as one of the best informed news programs and won an audience of four million".

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