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Sir Peter Bazalgette surveys an elaborate network of fencing snaking through Notting Hill Gate, where a huge leak recently turned the West London thoroughfare into a lake. We’ve been discussing his great-great-grandfather – the engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who masterminded the capital’s Victorian sewer system – and the ITV chairman and arts grandee draws an … Read more
No pronouncement by any politician – here today and gone tomorrow – and no referendum on this or that issue of the day will have any effect on my understanding of myself and where I belong. It makes me feel better just to put those words down on the page. The Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis … Read more
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby condemns Martin Bashir for the ‘bizarre and awful’ way he exploited ‘troubled’ Princess Diana for Panorama interview Veteran journalist slammed Bashir for using ‘deception and lies’ to secure Diana He said Bashir should have taken greater care over her emotional vulnerability BBC announced this week it would launch a full inquiry into … Read more
Mark Mardell has warned the BBC’s diversity drive will ‘annoy and dismay’ its audience in a parting shot as he left the corporation after a 30-year career. The veteran broadcaster, 63, announced on Twitter last month that he would be presenting his last World At One show after taking redundancy. Yesterday he expressed his frustrations … Read more
Shuffling around the exercise compound in a grim penitentiary, a bearded young man, humiliatingly clad in baggy orange overalls stamped with the word ‘CORRECTIONAL’, draws on a cigarette. Virtually the only white prisoner among hundreds of black inmates serving time for every imaginable crime, Oscar Pistorius has become a tormented, self-pitying figure. A born-again Christian, … Read more
Ex-BBC star Sue Cook, 71, accuses ‘unbalanced’ broadcaster of pushing too hard to shut down UK by forever ‘wheeling out’ ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson over other scientists Sue Cook, 71, was speaking to journalist Anna Brees about BBC’s Covid coverage She slammed ‘unbalanced’ corporation and said she’d stopped listening to Today Claimed ex-employer ‘wheeled out’ Prof … Read more
Moroccan lamb by broadcaster Andrew Marr By Compiled By Kyle Cathie Published: 00:02 BST, 4 October 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 4 October 2020 Moroccan lamb by broadcaster Andrew Marr So far, I have enjoyed a lucky, materially easy life: I have never been homeless. When I was about 18, I did follow an unsuccessful … Read more
Checking in… Broadcaster and author Jeremy Vine recalls his travel adventures, including going crabbing in Devon and visiting his favourite hotel – in Glasgow By York Membery for the Daily Mail Published: 12:49 BST, 3 October 2020 | Updated: 12:49 BST, 3 October 2020 Broadcaster and author Jeremy Vine This week broadcaster and author Jeremy … Read more
Author and broadcaster Charles Spencer reveals his favourite spots in the UK and why Madagascar is the most memorable place he’s visited By York Membery for the Daily Mail Published: 15:24 BST, 19 September 2020 | Updated: 15:24 BST, 19 September 2020 Author and broadcaster Charles Spencer checks in to our travel Q&A This week … Read more
Radio star Maz Compton makes her hotly anticipated return to Hit Network five years after finding out the broadcaster axed her from 2Day FM by text By Jabeen Waheed For Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:22 BST, 7 September 2020 | Updated: 02:24 BST, 7 September 2020 Radio star Maz Compton is returning to the Hit … Read more