Andrew Boyle (journalist)

'''Andrew Philip More Boyle''' (27 May 1919 – 22 April 1991) was a Scottish journalist and biographer.<ref name = "Jisc"/><ref name="NYT obit"/> 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.<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref>{{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}}</ref>

He was born in the Scottish city of Dundee, and was educated at Blairs College in Aberdeen and the University of Paris.<ref name="NYT obit"/> During the Second World War he was part of Britain's military intelligence in the Far East.<ref name="NYT obit"/> After the war he joined the BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer.<ref name="NYT obit">{{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}}</ref> 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".<ref name="NYT obit"/>

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 }}<ref name = "Jisc">{{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}}</ref>

*{{cite book | title = Trenchard: Man of Vision | date = 1962 | publisher = Collins | location = London | oclc = 502365129 }}<ref name = "Jisc"/>

*{{cite book | title = Montagu Norman: a Biography | date = 1967 | publisher = Cassell | location = London | oclc = 185582845 }}<ref name = "Jisc"/>

*{{cite book | title = Only the Wind Will Listen: Reith of the BBC | date = 1972 | publisher = London | location = Hutchinson | oclc = 905251503 }}<ref name = "Jisc"/>

*{{cite book | title = 'Poor, Dear Brendan': the Quest for Brendan Bracken | date = 1974 | publisher = London | location = Hutchinson | oclc = 1264955 }}<ref name = "Jisc"/>

*{{cite book | title = The Riddle of Erskine Childers | location = London | publisher = Hutchinson | year = 1977 | oclc = 782001325 }}<ref name = "Jisc"/>

*{{cite book | title = The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied For Russia | date = 1979 | publisher = London | location = Hutchinson | oclc = 13833543 }}<ref name = "Jisc"/>

Boyle left uncompleted biographies on John Moore-Brabazon (pioneering aviator and politician), Moura Budberg (adventuress and spy), Arthur "Bomber" Harris, and Dick White (spymaster).<ref name = "Jisc"/>

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