Bernard Falk

Who was Bernard Falk?

Bernard Michael Falk was a United Kingdom 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 son of Samuel, a wine merchant, and Belinda Mary Falk, and was educated at Liverpool College. He began his career in print journalism with the Birkenhead News and played Liverpool's Cavern Club in the evenings as a member of a beat group called 'Tony Snow and his Blizzards', later renamed 'The Bohemians'. He then worked on Fleet Street for the Daily Mirror, before his first job as a television reporter on Scottish TV's Scotland Today nightly news programme covering local issues. He quickly graduated to Scotland Today Report a weekly current affairs programme, filmed mostly within STV's region on the issues of the day.

He enjoyed a short spell at BBC Scotland appearing on Reporting Scotland and then to a controversial series of late-night entertainment shows called Falk On.... with the last word of the title featured the subject to be discussed. It was often controversial.