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
Army Bureau of Current Affairs number. The British Way and Purpose Army Bureau of Current Affairs The Army Bureau of Current Affairs, or ABCA, was an organisation set up by William Emrys Williams to educate and raise morale amongst British servicemen and servicewomen during World War II. Williams insisted – despite some controversy – on the right to education, in particular in current affairs, for servicemen and women, and so in mid-1941 Williams established the ABCA and ran it for the duration of the war. For this role, he became known as "ABCA Bill". The ACBA was a programme of general education for citizenship for