Newsmakers - David Frost

NZ’s leading interviewer of the day Ian Fraser puts the questions to his British counterpart, international media star David Frost, on this TVNZ current affairs show. The urbane Frost backgrounds his landmark 1977 interviews with disgraced former American president Richard Nixon (later the subject of Frost/Nixon). He is also on the brink of launching breakfast TV in the UK at a time when the media world is more finite and he can describe the venture as the “last new frontier”; and he discusses the then vexed subject of private/public media ownership.

There’s a tremendous lack of self knowledge there and I think he built a barrier between himself and not just the rest of the world but also he didn’t have to look inside himself.

– David Frost on Richard Nixon

Key Cast & Crew

Peter Craven

Producer

Ian Fraser

Presenter