Michael Barratt (television presenter) 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 boys' school near Fleetwood, Lancashire, and at Paisley Grammar School in Scotland. After leaving school, he became a journalist for Kemsley newspapers, before moving to Nigeria to be editor of the "Nigerian Citizen" and to work for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service. Following his return
Michael Nicholson the Messenger' in 2009, a Sony Broadcasting Awards Finalist in 2007 and three times Gold Medallist in New York's Broadcasting Guilds Award. 1999–2009 Reporter-Presenter for ITV's current affairs programme 'Tonight'. A regular contributor-presenter for BBC Radio 2 and 4. Documentaries include 'Falklands Families', 'Civvy Street', "Vietnam", 'Churchill', 'Archive Hour'. Contributor to 'Sunday Times', ' Economist', 'Daily Telegraph', 'Daily Express', 'Daily Mail', 'Spectator'. Falklands and Gulf Campaign Medals. In 1992 he was awarded the OBE from HM Queen Elizabeth II Fiction: "The Partridge Kite", "Red Joker", "December Ultimatum", "Pilgrim's Rest". Non Fiction: "A Measure of Danger", "Across the Limpopo", "Natasha's Story",