Stephen Graham
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Liverpool losing the FA Cup final to Wimbledon when I was a kid. It made me cry.
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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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