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Norman began his journalistic career at the Kensington News, later spending a period in South Africa where he developed a hostility to the situation created there by the emergence of Apartheid . By the 1960 s, Norman was a prominent journalist and was show business editor of the Daily Mail until 1971 , when he was made redundant. Subsequently, he wrote a column each Wednesday for '' The Guardian '', also contributing leader columns to the newspaper. He was a presenter of the BBC 's '' Film '' programme from 1972 , becoming the sole presenter the following year, although the programme was not transmitted outside of London and the South-east for the first few years. Norman's tenure was broken in 1982 by a brief unhappy spell presenting ''Omnibus''. After returning to the ''Film'' series, Norman became increasingly irritated by the BBC 's reluctance to screen the programme at a regular time, and he accepted an offer in 1998 to work for BSkyB , where he remained for three years. Jonathan Ross took his place as the BBC programme's presenter. Norman has written and presented a number of documentary series for the BBC , including '' Hollywood Greats '' (1977-79, 1983), '' British Greats '' (1980) and '' Talking Pictures '' (1987). A member of the Liberal Democrats , he supported Charles Kennedy's stance on the Second Iraq War . Barry Norman has contributed a column to the '' Radio Times '' for many years and has written a number of novels. EXTERNAL LINKS
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