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Esther Rantzen to open the Desmond Wilcox Media Centre at Rainhill High School |
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
Esther Rantzen is to give the inaugural Desmond Wilcox Lecture - “Does the TV Camera Always Lie?”- to guests at Rainhill High School in St Helens as part of the launch of the new Desmond Wilcox Media centre, named in honour of her late husband, the journalist and broadcaster.
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Head teacher John Pout said: “We are delighted that Esther Rantzen has taken time out of her busy schedule to travel to St. Helens to officially name our Media Centre after her late husband.
“He was a well respected professional in the media as well as a prolific campaigner for charity and we are privileged and honoured that our specialist education facilities that concentrate on the media arts should be named after such a great man.”
The Desmond Wilcox Media Centre provides music technology classrooms, community station Radio Rainhill, music practice rooms, a media classroom, recording studio and an arts theatre which seats 200. In the entrance there is a permanent exhibition celebrating the work of Desmond Wilcox.
Desmond Wilcox 1931 – 2000
Local lad Desmond Wilcox ran away from home at 16 to join the merchant navy.
He entered Fleet Street after two years of National Service and worked for the Daily Mirror, becoming a foreign correspondent in the New York bureau.
In 1960 he moved to television as a reporter on ITV's “This Week” current affairs programme, where he stayed for five years until joining the BBC where he made many of his award-winning documentaries.
Over the years Desmond Wilcox won a number of Bafta awards and was posthumously awarded the Grierson Documentary Film Awards Life Tribute in November 2001.
He was married to television presenter Esther Rantzen for 22 years.
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