John Suchet

Currently writing his 6th book, while planning his 7th. [July 2010]

Recently confirmed he is making another one-off return to be ITN's main commentator to mark 60 years of the end of World War Two. [February 2005]

Gives talks on his musical idol, Beethoven and his television news careers throughout the UK and in some parts of Europe. [November 2004]

After leaving the BBC in 1972, and intending to return one year later to the TV licence-funded BBC instead staying at ITN until 2004, he became a news reporter after a short stint sub-editing. Suchet was a news reporter at ITN for 12 years. He famously went to Afghanistan in 1979, dressed as businessmen to fool the mujahedeen who occupied the country illegally. But, it backfired for John and his camera crew who were then found out by the mujahedeen and almost were killed on the spot. Neverless, he got an a world exclusive story, and went to Afghanistan in 1981 and almost had the same fate.

In 1970, he left Reuters to join BBC Television's News Department in London, where he was sub-editing BBC News [then called BBC News And Newsreel] programmes.

John Suchet began his journalism career at Reuters news agency, in 1968. He was assigned to his first big story to Paris: the main story being the student riots which ended President de Gaulle's historic presidency of the previous ten years.