Sir John Tusa welcomes people to #clore10, 2010. Wikicommons. Some rights reserved.John Tusa first made his name as a radio and television presenter, most notably on Newsnight which he helped launch in 1980. He then moved into management, and thoroughly reformed the BBC World Service between 1986 and 1992.
Another career switch took him to rescue the Barbican, which during its first decade was probably the most reviled building in Britain. He turned it into a huge international success. He then chaired the University of the Arts and Clore Leadership programmes. Nine unlikely months as president of Wolfson College, Cambridge, exposed the absurd shenanigans of donnish politics worthy of the satirical show Beyond the Fringe.
By any standards, his was an exceptional career and one fully shared with his wife Ann. A noted historian of the Nuremberg Trials, with a crystal sharp wit, professionalism and sense of the absurd, she must have helped her husband navigate shoals of BBC boardroom politics worthy of serious study by an anthropologist.
