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词条 Mark Carruthers
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  1. Broadcasting work

  2. Personal life

  3. References

  4. External links

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}}Mark Carruthers OBE (born 1965) is a Northern Irish broadcaster and journalist. He currently presents a number of television and radio programmes for BBC Northern Ireland.[1][2]

Broadcasting work

Carruthers first joined BBC Northern Ireland in 1989[1] as a freelance contributing to Good Morning Ulster and PM Ulster on BBC Radio Ulster.[3]

In addition to having presented BBC Newsline, he has also presented Spotlight and Let's Talk for television and Evening Extra on BBC Radio Ulster.[1]

In August 2009, Carruthers became part of the presenting team of Good Morning Ulster as part of a series of presenter changes at BBC Radio Ulster.[4]

He is now the presenter of The View[5] and Sunday Politics Northern Ireland on BBC One Northern Ireland.[6] He also presents the regular BBC Two Northern Ireland programme Stormont Today, a half-hour analysis of the day's debates at the Northern Ireland Assembly.[7]

He has twice been nominated for a Royal Television Society award for his work – in 2018 and previously in 2003. In 2005 he and his BBC Newsline co-presenter, Donna Traynor, lifted a prestigious IFTA (Irish Film and Television Award) for Best News Programme.

Personal life

Carruthers was born in Derry, grew up in Limavady, County Londonderry and studied at Coleraine Academical Institution[8] and went on to study Political Science and Irish Politics at Queen's University, Belfast.[1]

Carruthers has an interest in the theatre. He was one of the founders of Tinderbox Theatre Company in 1988 [8] and took part in drama groups at college and university, including a stage appearance in a Riverside Theatre, Coleraine production of Oliver! alongside James Nesbitt.[8] He was Chairman of the Lyric Theatre Board until 2015 and was at the forefront of the campaign to rebuild the theatre on its south Belfast site for almost ten years.[1][9] He was awarded an OBE for services to Drama in Northern Ireland in the 2011 New Year Honours List.

He is co-editor of Stepping Stones - The Arts in Ulster 1971-2001 which was published by Blackstaff Press. His latest publication, Alternative Ulsters – Conversations on Identity, a collection of interviews with leading writers, actors, journalists and politicians, was published by Liberties Press in Dublin in late 2013 and was re-issued in paperback in December 2014. In March 2015 Alternative Ulsters was shortlisted for the prestigious Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize.

Carruthers is married with three children and lives in south Belfast.[1]

References

1. ^BBCi: BBC Newsline - Meet The Team: Mark Carruthers' profile
2. ^http://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2016/09/17/news/mark-carruthers-confessions-of-a-political-anorak-696772/
3. ^Belfast Telegraph: "Mark: 'I'm a real morning person'"; dated 31 August 2009, accessed 7 April 2010
4. ^BBC Press Office: "Radio Ulster makes presenter changes to news and current affairs programmes" dated 11 August 2009; accessed 6 April 2010
5. ^{{Cite web|title = The View - BBC One|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mzml5|website = BBC|accessdate = 2015-09-16}}
6. ^{{Cite web|title = Sunday Politics Northern Ireland - Mark Carruthers - BBC One|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2N4bC0Pn0BYcFz4WcrVKTZD/mark-carruthers|website = BBC|accessdate = 2015-09-16}}
7. ^{{Cite web|title = Stormont Today - BBC Two|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lfmk1|website = BBC|accessdate = 2015-09-16}}
8. ^The Belfast Telegraph: "My passion": dated 29 December 1998; accessed 9 February 2009
9. ^Lyric Theatre - Education Programme {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217210010/http://lyrictheatre.co.uk/education_programme.shtml |date=2009-02-17 }}: accessed 9 February 2009

External links

  • BBCi: BBC Newsline - Meet The Team: Mark Carruthers' profile
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