Bernard Falk He also worked on "Start The Week" on BBC Radio 4 and was the regular presenter of BBC Radio 4's Saturday morning travel programme, "Breakaway". Falk had a history of heart problems and died of a heart attack, aged 47. He was married and divorced twice. Bernard Falk Bernard Michael Falk (16 February 1943 – 4 August 1990) was a British television reporter and interviewer perhaps best known for his contributions to the BBC current affairs and magazine programme "Nationwide" in the 1970s and the BBC Radio 4 travel programme "Breakaway" in the 1980s. He was born in Southport, Lancashire
The World at One news and comment] on air". In his history of radio news and current affairs, "Public Issue Radio", Hugh Chignell pointed out that "The World at One" was a highly successful but also a profoundly controversial innovation. It provided a successful approach to news and current affairs which would be cloned elsewhere but at the same time it horrified the more Reithian wing of the BBC who reacted in the 1970s by creating single subject current affairs programmes ("Analysis" and "File on Four") in reaction to "The World at One's" vulgar journalism. That vulgarity was personified by its first presenter, William