Andrew Boyle (journalist)
{{short description|Scottish journalist and biographer}}
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Andrew Philip More Boyle (27 May 1919 – 22 April 1991) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. His biography of Brendan Bracken won the 1974 Whitbread Awards and his book The Climate of Treason exposed Anthony Blunt as the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring.{{cite news|title=Costa Book Awards: Whitbread Winners 1971 – 2005|page=5|url=https://www.costa.co.uk/media/414535/past-winners-complete-list.pdf|accessdate=29 March 2018|publisher=Costa Coffee|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328225415/http://www.costa.co.uk/media/414535/past-winners-complete-list.pdf|archive-date=28 March 2017|url-status=dead}}
He was born in the Scottish city of Dundee, and was educated at Blairs College in Aberdeen and the University of Paris. During the Second World War he was part of Britain's military intelligence in the Far East. After the war he joined the BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer.{{cite news |title=Andrew Boyle, Author, 71, Dies; Helped Expose a Top British Spy |publisher=Associated Press |date=1991-04-25 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D9133EF936A15757C0A967958260 |accessdate=2008-06-19}} In 1965 he was the founding editor of the BBC Radio 4 programme The World At One which "gained a reputation as one of the best informed news programs and won an audience of four million".
He also wrote the definitive biographies of Lord Trenchard, the father of the Royal Air Force and Erskine Childers, Irish Nationalist and author.
Bibliography
- {{cite book
| title = No Passing Glory. The Full and Authentic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire
| date = 1955
| publisher = Collins
| location = London
| oclc = 698901373
}}{{cite web|title=Andrew Boyle: Papers|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/1dfff01c-483d-3d08-82ea-f1898d065d9f|website=Archives Hub|publisher=Jisc (Joint Information Systems Committee)|accessdate=29 March 2018}}
- {{cite book
| title = Trenchard: Man of Vision
| date = 1962
| publisher = Collins
| location = London
| oclc = 502365129
- {{cite book
| title = Montagu Norman: a Biography
| date = 1967
| publisher = Cassell
| location = London
| oclc = 185582845
- {{cite book
| title = Only the Wind Will Listen: Reith of the BBC
| date = 1972
| publisher = London
| location = Hutchinson
| oclc = 905251503
- {{cite book
| title = 'Poor, Dear Brendan': the Quest for Brendan Bracken
| date = 1974
| publisher = London
| location = Hutchinson
| oclc = 1264955
- {{cite book
| title = The Riddle of Erskine Childers
| location = London
| publisher = Hutchinson
| year = 1977
| oclc = 782001325
- {{cite book
| title = The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied For Russia
| date = 1979
| publisher = London
| location = Hutchinson
| oclc = 13833543
Boyle left uncompleted biographies on John Moore-Brabazon (pioneering aviator and politician), Moura Budberg (adventuress and spy), Arthur "Bomber" Harris, and Dick White (spymaster).
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