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" It was my idea for high culture and popular culture to be treated equally. "

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" To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short. "

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" I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living. "

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