BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ 27.08.2009

Justin Webb    It is 30 years since an IRA bomb killed Lord Mountbatten. The bomb was placed in a boat. Also in that boat was Timothy Knatchbull, Lord Mountbatten’s grandson. He survived though his twin brother, his grandmother and a local teenager did not. Timothy Knatchbull now in his forties has written a book [...]


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BBC Radio Four ‘Midweek’ 30.09.2009

Libby Purves Tim Knatchbull and his family have needed every ounce of determination to live. It’s thirty years since he was blown up on the fishing boat off Ireland in the IRA atrocity which killed Earl Mountbatten, his grandfather, his grandmother Lady Brabourne and the young Irish boat boy, Paul Maxwell and most savage of [...]


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BBC Radio Kent 04.09.2009

PART ONE   Dominic Kent   He had an idyllic childhood in Kent, growing up in Mersham near Ashford. But in 1979 at the age of fourteen, Timothy Knatchbull’s world was shattered when he took a boat trip off the coast of Ireland. The Provisional IRA blew up the vessel assassinating his grandfather, Lord Mountbatten of [...]


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TODAY fm ‘The Last Word’ 02.09.09

Matt Cooper   A dreadful event in Irish history from thirty years ago, August 1979. There were survivors from the IRA bomb that killed Lord Mountbatten. One of those survivors has written a book thirty years on. Thank you for taking the time to join us. Can I ask if it is difficult for you to [...]


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BBC World Service ‘World Update’ 27.08.2009

Timothy Knatchbull   Well it was an absolutely beautiful day; gin clear, no wind, a mild, flat calm sea. You couldn’t want a more beautiful morning to go out on a family boat trip which is what we did.   My grandfather who was then seventy nine and my grandmother who was eighty three – that’s my [...]


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Press Releases for Timothy Knatchbull

03.09.10 Hutchinson Publishers 08.03.10 Aspen House & Random House India 05.08.10 Arrow Books


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TV interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

27.08.09 ITV: News at Ten 27.08.09 Ulster TV 27.08.09 Fermanagh TV 21.09.09 BBC South East Today 04.09.09 BBC News: Breakfast  15.08.10 Sky News: Sunday Live


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Online interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

  27.08.09 Belfast Galleries 29.08.09 Belfast Today 27.08.09 Culture Northern Ireland 20.09.09 Kent News 08.03.10 Aspen Institute 08.03.10 Aspen Institute 09.03.10 Design & People 11.03.10 Prospect Burma 11.03.10 Prospect Burma 26.08.10 Five Books 04.01.11 The Browser 19.12.11 South African ‘Independent’


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Radio interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

27.08.09 BBC World Service: World Update (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 27.08.09 BBC Radio Four: Today (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 02.09.09 RTE Radio: The Tubridy Show 03.09.09 RTE Radio: The Tubridy Show 02.09.09 TODAYfm: The Last Word (go to ‘Transcriptions’ for interview) 04.09.09 BBC Radio Kent: Part I & Part II (go to ‘Transcriptions’ [...]


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Newspaper interviews with Timothy Knatchbull

19.08.09 Sligo Champion 23.08.09 Irish Independent 23.08.09 Irish Tribune 23.08.09 Sunday Times 27.08.09 Daily Telegraph 28.08.09 Daily Mail 30.08.09 Sunday Times Review 16.09.09 Business Standard 18.09.09 Daily Mail 24.09.09 Kentish Express 12.10.09 Daily Telegraph 28.10.09 Fermanagh Herald 01.11.09 The Hindu 27.02.10 Times of India 28.02.10 The Sunday Guardian 07.03.10 Indian Express 11.03.10 The Pioneer 13.03.10 [...]


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  • 'It is one of the most intensely moving stories I have ever read, and I was gripped from the first page.'

    Barbara Taylor Bradford


    'Testament to a remarkable, benevolent soul...With this public love letter he has found a way to say goodbye’. Sunday Times


    ‘It is one of the most penetrating and humane books to have emerged from the Troubles.’

    Irish Independent


    'This amazingly clear-headed and mature book...Intelligent, honest, tender and so moving that it should come with a warning to read this in private because you're going to be in a tear-stained mess.’ Daily Mail


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