'Lost' David Frost interviews with Paul McCartney and others set to air on Radio 4

David Frost will long be remembered as the broadcaster who went head to head with former US president Richard Nixon in a series of interviews following the Watergate scandal.

But a trove of previously lost recordings of Frost’s interviews, with some of the greatest entertainers of the last 70 years, will now be brought back to life for a new radio series.

His son, Wilfred Frost – who followed in his father’s footsteps as a journalist – has spent the last five years searching and digitising his archives.

“There’s tapes that were lost for a generation,” he told The Telegraph.

He said he felt a “duty” to “celebrate” his father’s legacy and has produced a nine-part series, which will air on BBC Radio 4. A television show is also expected to follow next year.

To gather the lost recordings, he had to strike a deal with the US broadcaster CBS for the rights to some interview tapes that had been stored in its archives in Pennsylvania.

Source: Lizzie Roberts/telegraph.co.uk

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