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We first began working together in 1988; the presenter’s career in television and radio has been astonishing
Novelist and Labour peer, 85, will host new programme for the BBC next year
Shifts in politics and the media business are making the broadcaster more crisis-prone
Though it is increasingly redundant at sea
The veteran BBC reporter and writer died on January 25th, aged 90
Its latest crisis needs to spur reforms to bolster its news division
