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[…]inburgh University. I: What did you do at Uni? R: At University, well, I wanted to be an MP. That's what I originally wanted to be. And I remember reading this book that said most MPs were lawyers so I went to Edinburgh University to study Law and I did it. I did it for a while. I finished[…]
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[…] Scotland, particularly doing their equivalent of match of the day, but way back when it was shot in black and white film and stuff like that. So I remember accompanying my father on a few of his shoots, but also being aware as I grew up that he had a really interesting collection of friends. He was[…]
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[…].... th th that was manifested in the behaviour of John Davis to others. He was a really brutal man with his mouth. And I remember when a new homery, Honorary Treasurer of the fund was appointed, a very nice guy and of course qualified, Colin Wills his name was. John Davis took and instant dislike t[…]
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[…]ries as the lowliest, as the gofer, as the runner basically but I called myself a researcher and I was a journalist but I was never in NUJ, a paid-up member. So that was a kind of floating period. [10:53]And then they moved me into, I think, the Gus Macdonald regime burst into life and Content […]
