. >> have you ever reviewed harold evans books? >> we extracted harold evans book and i don't get that i negotiated him down. >> so much of your professional life has been involved with the written word, and with books. why? >> i'm a passionate reader myself. our house is just wall-to-wall books. i mean, wall to wall. you can't believe how may books in our house. but my husband is a passionate reader and writer. i am a passionate reader and writer. and we're just a family of bookworms. >> have you gotten a candle or a sony player or any kind of electronic? >> i have a kindle. i still am kind of a candidate user, that's all because i'm actually a slow adopter. it was a long time before i took my blackberry to heart. now i live -- can't live without my blackberry. of course, i do like the feel, touch, smell, physicality of a book. and always have the. and in fact, now we're back with the davies will start our own little electronic book company which we will start online, and an accomplished as paperback. so i'm becoming sort of a min

so ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming sir harold evans.[applause] >> i just got to adjust -- i can't be elevated so i have to lower this. thank you so much for those excellent words. it's always good to come back to britain which is where we are. and not to go through the formalities of proving who i am which happens is when you go through any security. the lucky -- nigel is so lucky because he's lived very close to me. and he's lucky because we never met. [laughter] >> because who knows, tina, what might have happened if i met the gorgeous julia who became a scientist and like me, ended up in the united states. tonight really it should be a celebration. not of me, frankly, but of reporting. that's what my book is about. it's about what newspapers could achieve. not what an editor can achieve. but what the reporters on the ground can achieve. that's why i'm particularly honored tonight to have ben bradley here who represents journalism at his best. and many other excellent reporters here. i'm also glad, of course, that we are here with the

[laughter] >> harold evans is 14 year tenure as the editor of the sunday times, and then a year as theeditor of the daily times of london. produced work of really extraordinary high standard. in 2001, journalist named him the greatest british newspaper editor of all time. [laughter] >> and he championed what yesterday's review of the book in the "new york times" called a crusading style of journalism in which he and his paper afflicted the guilty and championed the innocent. and people of my generation who got interested in national and international politics, very often did so because of the sunday times because of its flare, its cultural leadership and its investigative zeal. but this is also a transatlantic store. harold evans' first encounter with americans, i regularly, was during the second world war in manchester. and his fellowship in 1956 began a lifelong association. and he and tina have lived here for nearly 30 years. although tina doesn't remember, we were her contemporary's at oxford, and she had a knack of stopping the traffic they're just as she's done here and since. ha

it is a remarkable story so ladies and gentlemen, please help me in welcoming sir harold evans. [applause] >> i can't be elevated so i have to do this. thank you so much for the excellent words. it is always good to come back to britain, which is where we are. of course it is a british territory you understand and not to go to the full malices approving who i am which is what happens of course when you go through any security. julia lived very close to me and he is likely because we never met. [laughter] because he knows tino what might happen if i had met the gorgeous julia coop became a scientist and like me ended up in the united states. tonight really should be a celebration, not only me but of reporting. that is what my book is about. it is about what newspapers can achieve, not what an editor can achieve but what the reporters on the ground can achieve. that is why i am particularly honored tonight to have been bradley here who represents journalism at its best and many other excellent reporter's here. i am also glad of course that we are here which is a synthesis i think

>> i am reading harold evans, a remarkable story. talk about when newspapers were in their heyday. discovered -- he had a remarkable career with the times of london. it is a great book. i am reading of couple other books. i go through one line by line every few years and another book by a british historian called seven ages of paris which is a great history of paris. it is about is enjoyable history. >> your b

>> let's see, actually reading harold evans, which is a remarkable story -- you talk about when newspapersre in the heyday, harold cracks spy cases. he discovered -- had a more remarkable career with the times of london and it is a great book. and i am reading a couple of other books, william which i go through line by line every few years, and also another book by historian, british historian called seven ages of paris, which is a great history of paris. it is about his enjoyable of a history book i've ever read. >> you're looking out earlier this year. when is your next one? >> well i don't know. adis -- we got in the top ten for two or three weeks and that was great, but it is kind of tough writing political books in this environment unless you want to write a polemic and that's not really my style so i don't know. actually the best part of writing the book was the

. >> booktv at candidate but ready for newspaper editor and publisher harold evans for the publicationr chase: true stories of vanished times." the party was held at the british ambassador's residence in washington d.c. "the new york times," the economist, financial times, and the new yorkers that the dead "my paper chase: true stories of vanished times" as one other notable nonfiction books of 2009. some mac. >> thank you. >> the book was written and then the paperback was done and then contemporary systems got a grant to turn it into a teaching college. and it has taken us two years to get it ready, but we have been teaching right now for the academic year of 2010. and the website is interactive, television voices, books, references. and i didn't create it. somebody else created it but i do all the speaking for it. he is a remarkable man. i was so pleased about being involved with him. he is certainly told the story. and he told me that he didn't read the book when it came out. but somebody arty bought it and stuck it on himself and then just saw this book and said what the hell is t