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Stuart John Francis Cosgrove (born 12 November 1952) is a Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television executive. As a journalist, Cosgrove served on the NME (as media editor) and The Face during the 1980s, before joining Channel 4 in 1994, serving for eight years as Controller of Arts and Entertainment and then as Head of Programmes (Nations and Regions) until stepping down in 2015. [1]

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Education

Cosgrove graduated in Drama and English from the University of Hull and has studied at George Mason University, Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Wharton Business School. He has a Ph.D. in Media (the thesis published as part of the book Theatres of the Left, 1880-1935) and a Doctorate in English and American Studies. He has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts by the University of Abertay Dundee and honorary professorships by the University of Stirling and Liverpool John Moores University. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Career

Cosgrove is the co-host of BBC Radio Scotland's popular comedy football phone-in Off the Ball which he presents twice a week with Tam Cowan, and as the co-host of BBC Scotland's Saturday football Sportscene results show. Born and brought up in the Letham area of Perth, but living now in Dennistoun, he is a fan of St Johnstone. [6]

Personal life

Cosgrove's father, a Perth native, was killed in his early 30s in a road accident in 1960, [7] when Cosgrove was eight years old. [8] A lorry driver for the Co-op supermarket, one of the tyres of the lorry he was travelling in as a passenger blew and the lorry hit a tree. [9] His mother lived until she was 90. [7]

In August 1963, Cosgrove and his family were stuck on a train near Carlisle railway station for six hours. It transpired that all of the trains on the Glasgow line were stopped because the Great Train Robbery had just occurred in Ledburn, England. [8]

Cosgrove began supporting his hometown club St Johnstone because, before the Tulloch estate to the northeast came to be, [9] he could see their then-ground Muirton Park from his Letham bedroom window. [10] For the first three or four years of his life, the family lived in Hillyland before the short move to Strathtay Road in Letham when he was about seven years of age. [9]

Cosgrove is married to Shirani, a TV executive of Sri Lankan Tamil heritage, [9] with whom he has a son,. He also has a daughter from his previous marriage (1992–1999) to Angie, a beautician.[ citation needed ]

His two sisters are Alison and Marilyn. [7]

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  2. ↑ "University of Abertay Dundee". The Scotsman. 5 July 2002. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
  3. ↑ "Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Nations and Regions Channel 4". Channel 4. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "Dr Stuart Cosgrove". National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
  5. ↑ "The Blueheaven Interview". Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
  6. ↑ "Stuart Cosgrove". BBC Radio Scotland. BBC. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  7. 1 2 3 "A man of two halves" - The Scotsman, 15 September 2002
  8. 1 2 "Channel 4 boss talks GBBO and soul" - The Cumberland News, 2 October 2016
  9. 1 2 3 4 "BROADCASTER STUART COSGROVE IS FULL OF NORTHERN SOUL" - ScottishField.co.uk, originally published on 1 November 2019; photographs added in 2019
  10. ↑ "Si Ferry Meets... Tam Cowan and Stuart Cosgrove | 25 Years of Off the Ball" - Open Goal, YouTube, published on 23 September 2019
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