From a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Manhattan the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social political & creative change. Just how did a working class Lancashire boy who failed the eleven-plus rise to a position where he could so effectively give voice to the unheard? Born in the bleak years between the wars in the sprawl of Greater Manchester into a thrifty diligent & loving family Evans inherited only the privilege of his parents' example. Theirs was a work ethic that led Evans through night school classes national service & a passionate commitment to regional life & finally to his unassailably successful editorship of one of our greatest newspapers the Sunday Times. Whether unpicking the murderous chaos of Bloody Sunday pursuing a foreign correspondent's murderers or uncovering the atrocity of Thalidomide this consummate newsman evokes his contagious passion: for the real story & the truth.