Brian Hanrahan was born on 22 March 1949 in Middlesex, England, UK. He was married to Honor Wilson. He died on 20 December 2010 in London, England, UK.
He was a long-time BBC foreign correspondent who covered the Falklands War, the Tiananmen Square protests, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and many other international news events.
[reporting on the Falklands War in 1982] I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I counted them all back. Their pilots were unhurt, cheerful and jubilant, giving thumbs-up signs.