14 Facts About John Tusa

Sir John Tusa was born on 2 March 1936 and is a British arts administrator, and radio and television journalist.

John Tusa is co-chairman of the European Union Youth Orchestra from 2014.

Two days before the German occupation of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939, John Tusa senior flew out of Czechoslovakia on a Bata company plane, via Poland, Yugoslavia and France.

John Tusa then became general manager of the Bata factory and its associated village in East Tilbury, living in the nearby village of Horndon-on-the-Hill where his son grew up.

John Tusa junior was educated at St Faith's School, Cambridge, Gresham's School, Holt, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in History.

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John Tusa was President of Wolfson College, Cambridge from January to October 1993.

John Tusa was then a newsreader on BBC's One O'Clock News for two years during the mid-1990s.

John Tusa anchored the BBC's coverage of the D-Day 50th anniversary celebrations in June 1995, and of the Hong Kong handover on 30 June 1997.

John Tusa was announced as having accepted the position of chairman with the Victoria and Albert Museum on 18 June 2007, but stepped down from the post a month later, recognising a conflict of interest with his position at the University of the Arts London.

John Tusa deprecated the focus and management style of director general John Birt and has been vociferous about subsequent decisions to pare down World Service activities in Europe, including the Czech section.

From 2000 until 2005, John Tusa interviewed 55 major figures in the arts for BBC Radio 3.

John Tusa's Engaged with the Arts: Writings from the Frontline was published in 2007.

John Tusa wrote two books jointly with his historian wife Ann Tusa: The Nuremberg Trial and The Berlin Blockade .

John Tusa married Ann Hilary Dowson in 1960; she died in November 2021.