Michael Barratt (television presenter) • 2. "Nationwide" presenter Dilys Morgan on 7 August 1977. (2 sons and 1 daughter). Michael Barratt was in Robert Morley's Book of Bricks. He referred to an interview with a black dictator; when he fielded the riposte: "two blacks don't make a white." Michael Barratt (television presenter) Michael Fieldhouse Barratt (born 3 January 1928) is an English television presenter and announcer. He is mainly known for his lengthy period as the main presenter on "Nationwide". Michael Barratt was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a civil servant. Barratt was educated at Rossall School, an independent
John O'Donoghue (TV presenter) later work included the regional news and features programmes "Next Stop" in the 1970s and "Ireland’s Eye" (1980-83). John O'Donoghue (TV presenter) John O’Donoghue (1931–2014) was a broadcaster. He grew up in Milltown, Co. Kildare, and studied history at UCD. He later trained as a barrister, but pursued a career in broadcasting instead. O'Donoghue joined Telefís Éireann in the early 1960s, and presented the new station's first current affairs programme, "Broadsheet". He also presented Irish television’s first coverage of a general election count in 1965, from a special "elections newsroom" in Studio One. O’Donoghue then went on to present the