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Xmas news
I recall in the build-up to the first Gulf War being asked by a New York producer from CBS if we could do a piece on how Jordanians celebrated Christmas. It was a pretty short piece. Emily Wilson at Channel 4 News blogs on how hard it is to fill programmes at this time of…
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Strange Christmas experiences…
Two years ago I was Michael Aspel and Carol Smillie‘s phone-a-friend on the UK Xmas special of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: I’ve never met them… I got the answer right… I kind of knew they’d be calling… Weird, eh? Postscript: They only won a grand, after going for Will Self as author of…
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From the ivory tower
Escaping my journalistic shackles, here’s a piece I did on university regulation for the Times Higher Educational Supplement. Subscription is free for 14 days.
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Off licence
…if they go mad and hire fifteen more Jonathan Rosses they’ll blow the whole wad!Exactly who believes that the leaked licence fee settlement is bad news for the BBC? Why BBC insiders, of course. Oh, and the NUJ and BECTU. In the real world, a 3% revenue rise for the next couple of years is…