Career
He attended Lochinver House School, then Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, and read American Studies at the University of Hull.
McCarthy was a journalist working for United Press International Television News at the time of his kidnap by Islamic Jihad terrorists in Lebanon in April 1986, and was held in captivity until his release on August 8, 1991. He shared a cell with the Irish hostage Brian Keenan for several years.
Following his release, he co-authored, with Jill Morrell, a memoir of his years in captivity, entitled Some Other Rainbow. In 1995 he sailed around the coast of Britain with Sandi Toksvig, making a BBC documentary TV series and a book of the experience. McCarthy attended university with Toksvig's brother, Nick. John McCarthy currently co-presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Excess Baggage, also with Sandi Toksvig.
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