David Dunseith

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David Dunseith (born 1933) is a journalist and broadcaster with BBC Northern Ireland.

He has been presenting BBC Radio Ulster's Talk Back since 1989 - he followed the late Barry Cowan as presenter - but his association with the programme goes back even further than that. When it first went on the air in 1986, he was a weekly contributor with a unique ability to read from a script written on various pieces of scrap paper - a talent he has little opportunity to demonstrate in this computer age.

In 2006 Talk Back won a silver Sony Radio Academy Award in the news and current affairs programme category.

On Friday 7 September 2006, David Dunseith presented the 20th anniversary edition of Talk Back.

His career has spanned the troubles covering the turbulent and tragic events of recent years from the Falls Curfew in 1970 to the Omagh atrocity in 1998.

He has reported on all the Northern Ireland political initiatives from Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement.