Michael Ball
English singer, presenter and actor
Watching Long Lost Family on telly.
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Meeting Richard Ratcliffe outside the Foreign Office during his hunger strike to try to get action to free Nazanin. I’m moved by the loyalty and strength of that couple and their family.
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In the last year, when I realised that I didn’t want to be in the relationship that I was in.
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A 50-metre lido that was always empty when I went.
When I was a 26-year-old news correspondent, the head of BBC news gathering, Chris Cramer, refused to let me take up a six-month attachment on the foreign affairs programme Correspondent. He said: “I think it’s too soon; you could do it later.” He’d never have said that to a man.
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