Forsyth was born in Ashford, Kent, in 1938 and educated at Tonbridge School, where he studied French and German. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1956 and served as its youngest fighter pilot at age nineteen before entering a career in journalism. From 1958 to 1961 he was a reporter for the Eastern Daily Press, first in Norwich and later in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1961 he was a Reuters correspondent and traveled between London, Paris, and East Berlin, serving as bureau chief in the East German capital because of his knowledge of languages; next he acted as a BBC radio reporter in London between 1965 and 1967, an assistant diplomatic correspondent for BBC Television in 1967, and a free-lance journalist in Nigeria in 1967 and 1968 after his pro-Biafran coverage offended Sir David Hunt, British high commissioner in Lagos.
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