Al-Jazeera broadcasts Frost documentary - Bangabandhu

LONDON: The Qatar based Al Jazeera TV broadcast a documentary on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made by international eminent journalist late David Frost.

The documentary titled “Bangabandhu, the hero of liberation” was aired at GMT 20:00 on September 20.

This is the last documentary film made by David Frost. For collection of the information making the documentary, he visited Bangladesh in June this year after 41-year.

Meanwhile, he visited Bangabandhu grave in Tungipara of Gopalganj along with the premier and interviewed her and her son Sajeeb Wajed joy.

There was confusion about the finishing of the documentary but Frost completed it in his life span.

Around one hour long documentary starts with “Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, one of the most powerful women in the world” and about the great hero Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

He had several meetings with High Commissioner and Information Minister for gathering information to make the documentary.

He also visited Bangabandhu’s Dhaka residence at Dhanmondi 32 to visualize the marks of the cruelty of August 15, 1975. He experienced the evidences of that brutal killing. He along with his team collected evidences and video footage to create the documentary.

David Frost was the man who first took Bangabandhu’s interview as a leader of independent Bangladesh in 1972.

Sir David Frost, 74, the veteran broadcaster whose television career over six decades encompassed satire, game shows and the celebrated interviews in which Richard Nixon apologized for Watergate, has died after suffering a heart attack aboard a cruise ship.

For the BBC, he hosted the Sunday morning interview programme Breakfast with Frost from 1993 to 2005. He spent two decades as host of Through the Keyhole. From 2006 to 2012 he hosted the weekly program Frost Over the World on Al Jazeera English and from 2012, the weekly program The Frost Interview.

Frost was the only person to have interviewed all eight British prime ministers serving between 1964 and 2010 (Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, James Callaghan, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron) and all seven US presidents in office between 1969 and 2008 (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush).