Trevor McDonald: I’m horrified by the impact my work had on my marriage

Sir Trevor McDonald is one of the most eminent – if not the most eminent broadcasters on British television. Over the course of 16 years he became a national figure as the anchor of ITN’s News at Ten; he was the first person to interview Nelson Mandela on his release from prison in 1990; the only Western journalist to interview Saddam Hussein at the time of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in the same year. He went on to make documentaries about subjects as varied as Martin Luther King and Fred and