Tim Rice
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I would definitely change the way one or two relationships ended.
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Maybe I should have agreed to take the job of controller of BBC One when Bill Cotton offered it to me. I do feel a wimp; I would have been the first woman in the job.What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t really claim credit, I hope, for helping to launch Childline and the Silver Line and Silver Stories. It is an achievement that they all exist, but that is down to their amazing teams.
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Douglas Stuart
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My mother and my brother would still be alive. So much of my life has been coping with the grief of losing them.
James Bay
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I couldn’t do it. I realised recently that all the things that have gone wrong are just as important as all the things that went right.
I would be less naive.
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