David Dunseith (born 1933) is a journalist and broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland. He has been presenting BBC Radio Ulster's Talk Back since 1989 - he followed the late Barry Cowan as presenter - but his association with the programme goes back even further than that. When it first went on the air in 1986, he was a weekly contributor with an ability to read from a script written on various pieces of scrap paper.

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  • David Dunseith (born 1933) is a journalist and broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland. He has been presenting BBC Radio Ulster's Talk Back since 1989 - he followed the late Barry Cowan as presenter - but his association with the programme goes back even further than that. When it first went on the air in 1986, he was a weekly contributor with an ability to read from a script written on various pieces of scrap paper. He became its main presenter in 1989, going on to establish a huge reputation for straight-talking, no-nonsense, often merciless grilling of interviewees. In 2006 Talk Back won a silver Sony Radio Academy Award in the news and current affairs programme category. On Friday 7 September 2006, David Dunseith presented the 20th anniversary edition of Talk Back. His career has spanned the troubles covering the turbulent and tragic events of recent years from the Falls Curfew in 1970 to the Omagh atrocity in 1998. He has reported on all the Northern Ireland political initiatives from Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement. From the end of August 2009, the laconic David Dunseith will end over two decades of work on the current affairs flagship programme, Talk Back. The radio station is reshuffling presenters on its news and current affairs programmes. David will present Seven Days, a Sunday round-up show on Radio Ulster, beginning on 6 September 2009.
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  • David Dunseith (born 1933) is a journalist and broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland. He has been presenting BBC Radio Ulster's Talk Back since 1989 - he followed the late Barry Cowan as presenter - but his association with the programme goes back even further than that. When it first went on the air in 1986, he was a weekly contributor with an ability to read from a script written on various pieces of scrap paper.
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  • David Dunseith
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