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John Simpson

Desperately Seeking Wisdom

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The Cold Strange World of the BBC

I was too young and ignorant to make any great judgments. All I knew was that most of them didn't like me because I came from, from university. In fact, that I'd got a double first at Cambridge. But they got into their heads. I was this sort of vunderkint who was in their midst. Of course, all the old 40 year old, 50 year olds looked really a scarance at me. And they were right to because I had no ideas of my own. Were you pushing? No, not at all. I mean, I always knew what I wanted to do. And I didn't give up wanting to do it. Nobody actually got on

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