Background
He was born in Southport, Lancashire the son of Samuel, a wine merchant, and Belinda Mary Falk (née Kennedy), and was educated at Liverpool College.
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Bernard Michael Falk was a United Kingdom television reporter and interviewer perhaps best known for his contributions to the British Broadcasting Corporation current affairs and magazine programme Nationwide in the 1970s and the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 travel programme Breakaway in the 1980s.
Career
He then worked on Fleet Street for the Daily Mirror, before his first job as a television reporter on Scottish television"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 British Broadcasting Corporation 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.
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He later moved to London to join British Broadcasting Corporation current affairs, appearing in programmes including 24 hours. In 1971 Falk was imprisoned for four days in Belfast"s Crumlin Road jail for contempt of court.
He was also notable for hosting the early reality television survival show Now Get Out of That, the late-night live chat show/discussion programme Sin on Saturday in the early 1980s and for reporting on British general election night programmes. He also worked on Start The Week on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 and was the regular presenter of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Saturday morning travel programme, Breakaway.
Falk had a history of heart problems and died of a heart attack aged 47.
Membership
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 had interviewed a member of the Ireland Republican Army but refused to reveal his source to the police.
