Self-centredness.
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Jon Snow
b. 1948
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Born in Sussex, Snow, 76, began his career at LBC. In 1976, he joined ITN, where he became Washington correspondent and diplomatic editor. From 1989 to 2021, he was the main presenter of Channel 4 News. In 2005, he won the Richard Dimbleby Bafta award for best factual presenter, and he has many Royal Television Society awards. In 2015, he received a Bafta fellowship, and in 2017 he gave the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh international television festival. Snowcast is his weekly podcast, and his new book is The State of Us. He is married, has three children, and lives in London.
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Fainting as a chorister in Winchester Cathedral in the middle of a service.
The cheapest available Volvo.
Tall, arrogant and loving.
Am I enjoying it too much to find out?
“You pinko!” by a Tory minister signing off at the end of an interview with me during the EU referendum campaign.
Retirement – I thought it was a bad idea.
I am too ashamed to answer.
When interviewing Idi Amin of Uganda in 1975, he shouted: “We have ways of dealing with people like you.”
An all-embracing welfare state.
I will let you know when I find out.
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