The Struggle to Join the BBC

I think that you could go back over the last 50 years and pretty much anything of substance in history, you've had a front row seat to. Is that fair? Oh, yeah. No, I think it's entirely fair. But it never came easy. Nothing in my entire existence that the BBC except possibly that moment of joining was easy. There were always obstacles, major obstacles put in the way. Once, more than once,. I just turned up to Iran in the Iran Iraq war. It was a particularly key, absolute key moment. I knew we should be there. So I bought a plane ticket. When Ayatollah Khomeini flew from Paris back to Iran to kick