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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 August 2024 source ↗
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.
My singing career.
The fans’ reaction at the end of Game Of Thrones because I think it was brilliant.
The distribution of Copying Beethoven in the US.
Rapping the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme on national television.
If emergency train announcements were written up on the information screen. The times I ended up at the wrong destination could easily have been avoided.
You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
Dolly Parton. I love how she does what she wants, and lives how she wants, keeping her life so private. Also, she helped fund Covid vaccine research.
That my work has given deaf children more confidence in themselves and a sense of ownership of who they are.
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
Hilary Swank, Rob Brydon, Paul Giamatti, Reece Shearsmith, Don Warrington, Grace Coddington
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