Brian Hanrahan (born 22 March 1949, Middlesex) was the Diplomatic Editor for BBC News and a well known correspondent. Recently, he has presented The World at One on BBC Radio Four and cover shifts on the rolling news channel BBC News 24. March 22 is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... The Middlesex Guildhall at Westminster Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and was the second smallest (after Rutland). ... The current BBC News logo BBC News and Current Affairs is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporations newsgathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism. ... The World at One, or WATO for short, is BBC Radio 4s long-running lunchtime news and current affairs programme, which is broadcast from 1pm to 1:30pm from Monday to Friday. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... BBC News 24 is the BBCs 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom. ...

Hanrahan was educated at the St Ignatius' College (grammar school) in Stamford Hill, Tottenham. He studied politics at the University of Essex. He joined the BBC in 1970 as a photographic stills clerk, then became a scriptwriter, then duty editor in the TV newsroom. He became the BBC's Northern Ireland correspondent. He was a member of an amateur dramatic society. St Ignatius College is a Catholic secondary school for boys, aged 10-18, now located in Enfield, Greater London. ... Stamford Hill is a place in the north of the London Borough of Hackney, near the border with Haringey. ... Tottenham is a suburb of north London in the London Borough of Haringey, situated 6. ... The University of Essex rules is a British plate glass university. ...

When on HMS Hermes, he was responsible for one of the most memorable journalistic moments of the Falklands War, with the line I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I counted them all back. This got him around the reporting restrictions placed by military intelligence, so that he could say that all the British Harrier jets had returned safely without saying how many there were. It has become a prime example of good reporting under pressure. The second HMS Hermes (R12) was a Centaur-class aircraft carrier, the last of the postwar conventional aircraft carriers commissioned into the Royal Navy. ... Combatants Argentina United Kingdom Commanders Presidente Leopoldo Galtieri Vice Admiral Juan Lombardo Brigadier General Ernesto Crespo Brigade General Mario Menéndez Prime minister Margaret Thatcher Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse Rear-Admiral Sandy Woodward Major General Jeremy Moore Casualties 649 killed 1,068 wounded 11,313 taken prisoner 75 fixed wing...

In the 1980s, he was based in Hong Kong, then in Moscow in the 1980s and 1990s. Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government  - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area  - City 1,081 km²  (417. ...

Publications

• I Counted Them All Out And I Counted Them All Back (with Robert Fox, defence correspondent for the Evening Standard), August 1982, BBC Books.

Headlines of the Evening Standard on the day of London bombing on July 7, 2005, in Waterloo Station The Evening Standard is a British tabloid newspaper published and sold in London and surrounding areas of southeast England. ...

External links

• BBC Profile of Brian Hanrahan

Audio clips

• Counting returning Harriers
• Bombing in Bluff Cove
• Argentinian surrender

Video clips

• Chenobyl
• As the BBC's Diplomatic Editor