SPLASHED!

Tom Mangold is known to millions as the face of BBC television's flagship current affairs programme Panorama, and as its longest-serving reporter. Splashed is a volume of memoir, 'not autobiography', as Tom would have it, which manages to be both compelling and at times hilarious. His intent was to uncover some of the more raucous and downright absurd events that marked his life in journalism alongside some of the more serious work which made his name.He describes his national service in Germany through his years in the '50s on Fleet Street's most ruthless newspapers, a period where cheque…