Career
He grew up in Derry. Before pursuing a career in the media, he was a police officer, but moved to journalism in the 1970s. He worked for Ulster Television (U.T.V.), presenting many programmes, including UTV Reports and Counterpoint. During UTV's 50th birthday celebrations in November 2009, he co-presented an edition of UTV Live.
David Dunseith is perhaps best known for presenting BBC Radio Ulster's Talk Back from 1989 to 2009 – he followed the late Barry Cowan as presenter – but his association with the programme went back even further than that. When it first went on the air in 1986, he was a weekly contributor with an ability to read from a script written on various pieces of scrap paper. He became its main presenter in 1989, going on to establish a huge reputation for straight-talking, no-nonsense, often merciless grilling of interviewees. In 2006 Talk Back won a silver Sony Radio Academy Award in the news and current affairs programme category. He presented the 20th anniversary edition of Talk Back on Friday 7 September 2006.
In August 2009, he ended over two decades of work on Talk Back when Radio Ulster reshuffled presenters on its news and current affairs programmes. On May 11 2011, Dunseith announced his retirement from Radio Ulster while presenting his final Seven Days
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