David Frost to speak at convention

The heavyweight journalist – 71 today – has interviewed most world leaders of recent times, including the last seven British Prime Ministers and the last seven American presidents, and popular artists such as The Beatles, Tennessee Williams and Orson Welles.

A worldwide audience of 45 million watched him interview former United States President Richard Nixon in which he admitted his role in the Watergate scandal.

The story was immortalised in the Oscar-nominated Frost/Nixon film in 2008.

Mike Firth, the convention chief executive, said: "Sir David is a man who has interviewed some of the most influential and powerful people in the world and without exception he has managed to get beneath the public face of those people to find out what really makes them tick.

"The stories he has to tell are certainly going to be entertaining but I am confident they will also be equally inspirational for the delegates.

"Quite apart from his television work throughout the world, he has also written 15 books and produced eight films. So anyway you look at it his is going to be a story worth hearing."

Sir David rose to fame on That Was The Week That Was and went on to become a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. He now presents Frost All Over The World for Al-Jazeera.

He joins speakers including actor and adventurer Brian Blessed,

lingerie entrepreneur Michelle Mone, business author Rene Carayol, online retailer Brian Kalma and Peter Burkill, the pilot who successfully brought down his Boeing 777 when both engines failed two miles from Heathrow Airport.

All six speakers will be heard by delegates at the convention's twin sites at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate and The Spa at Bridlington on Friday June 11.

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