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Born into a working-class family in West Bromwich on 8 July , Alastair Brian Walden was a University lecturer and then Labour Party Member of Parliament for Ladywood, Birmingham between and

He moved out of politics and began his work as a television presenter in the late s, fronting LWT's Sunday morning current affairs programme Weekend World (ITV, ) between and , after the series' first presenter, Peter Jay, left to become Britain's US Ambassador.

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Former Labour MP who went on to become one of the most astute political interviewers on television in the 1970s and 80s.

Brian Walden was born on July 8, 1932 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The New Statesman (1987), Titmuss Regained.

Walden's experience in the House and as President of the Oxford University students union was a distinct advantage in his new role as a political broadcaster.

He gained a reputation as an earnest, occasionally sardonic, but acute interrogator, noted for his direct and probing questions.

Unusually, he abandoned the autocue in his interviews, preferring to ask questions off the cuff. His often-repeated line to his interviewees, 'let me put this to you, Minister', became something of a catchphrase. The distance Walden had tra