Bernadette Duncan

Bernadette Duncan Harrison is a 30-plus year veteran producer of talk shows, having worked with such stars as Larry King, Lou Dobbs, Sally Jessy Raphael, Tom Snyder, Charles Osgood, Gil Gross and many more. Her articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Daily News, Cosmopolitan and Seventeen among other publications. Duncan’s new book, Yappy Days: Behind the Scenes with Newsers, Schmoozers, Boozers and Losers (Talkers Books, 2015), focuses on her fascinating encounters with hosts, celebrities, politicos, and over-the-top characters while she was a producer at ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and other media outlets. It provides the reader with intriguing insights into the personalities and egos of these high-profile figures and a behind-the-scenes look at how talk shows are produced. She currently lives in Massachusetts and Florida with her husband Michael Harrison, publisher and founder of Talkers magazine.