John Humphrys
John Humphrys
Desmond John Humphrys is an award-winning Welsh broadcaster. From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter for the Nine O'Clock News, the flagship BBC news television programme, and since 1987 he has been a presenter on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 programme, Today. He presents the programme with Justin Webb, Nick Robinson, Mishal Husain and Sarah Montague. Since 2003 he has been the host of the BBC Two television quiz show Mastermind...
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Anywhere with a decent stand of trees can be great, and we still actually have open fields in Northwest Arkansas, so you have a good assortment of habitat, which means a good assortment of birds.
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It contributes to it. What do you think politics is, if not arguing about principles?
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In fact nobody has ever complained about the sorts of things I say because it is done with affection and is obviously light-hearted,
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So he was let out, went to Houston and started causing problems there.
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Birds are really the only wildlife that's readily available. They're everywhere you look, and different species come and go as the seasons change, compared to most mammals.
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When ministers leave government we discover that there are all sorts of things they said in government that they did not actually believe,
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It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.
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The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.
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It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.