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      William Collins

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

      Copyright © John Humphrys 2019

      Cover image © Jeff Overs/Getty Images

      All images courtesy of the author unless otherwise stated.

      Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The publisher apologises for any errors or omissions in the above list and would be grateful if notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in future editions of this book.

      John Humphrys asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780007415571

      eBook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780007415601

      Version: 2019-09-13

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      Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Contents

      6  Prologue

      7  Part 1 – Yesterday and Today

      8  1 A childhood of smells

      9  2 The teenAGE pAGE

      10  3 Building a cathedral

      11  4 A gold-plated, diamond-encrusted tip-off

      12  5 A sub-machine gun on expenses

      13  6 A job that requires no talent

      14  Part 2 – Today and Today

      15  7 A very strange time to be at work

      16  8 Why do you interrupt so much?

      17  9 ‘Come on, unleash hell!’

      18  10 A pretty straight sort of guy?

      19  11 Management are deeply unimpressed

      20  12 Hamstrung by a fundamental niceness

      21  13 A meeting with ‘C’

      22  14 The director general: my part in his downfall

      23  15 Turn me into a religious Jew!

      24  Part 3 – Today and Tomorrow

      25  16 The political deal

      26  17 Shrivelled clickbait droppings

      27  18 Goodbye to all that

      28  Picture Section

      29  Also by John Humphrys

      30  About the Author

      31  About the Publisher

      LandmarksCoverFrontmatterStart of ContentBackmatter

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