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[…]nt was slightly fragmented and she was current affairs bossDavid Attenborough: And there was this very doctrinaire thing that current affairs was not news, which still dogs the BBC, because current affairs could include comment, not editorialised but it could allow people to put opinion in and news […]
[…]ing and we’d got agreements signed and all that sort of business I wentand saw Bert Newton. And, mm, I also started...And start insult him?No, it was pathetic. [Laughter] All he could talk about was the fact that he’d been sent to America and just come back. Asked me if I wanted a job.34Big deal.I a[…]
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[…] was this very doctrinaire thing that current affairs was not news, which still dogs the BBC, because current affairs could […]
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