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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of newsnight and long-standing quiz master of university challengefrom john major to theresa may and tony blair to ed miliband, he has them quaking in their boots'bursting with good things' daily telegraphduring 25 years as bbc newsnight's supreme inquisitor, jeremy paxman proved himself as the master of the political intervviewhe discussed belief with religious leaders and philosophers, economics with ceos and bankers, books with writers, and art and theatre with artistsin a life in questions, the tables are turned: the quizmaster answers our burning questions, telling terrifying stories and laughing at much of the silliness in the worldthese are the long-awaited memoirs of the greatest political interviewer of our timesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreafter 23 years on university challenge, paxman is also the longest-serving active quizmaster on british televisionfilled with views, opinions and stories from 4 decades in front of the camerapaxman's interviews with dizzee rascal, david bowie, russell brand and vivienne westwood are legendarybut it wasn't just politicians
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) jeremy explains his big break as a today programme reporter when he was fired at by a sniper during the early days of the war in bosnia; he walks us through the corridors of westminster in the s when he was a political correspondent, trying to deal with the likes of alastair campbell and peter mandelson; he reflects on the steep learning curve that was his posting as african correspondent at the turn of the millennium; and his return to the uk where he was dubbed paxman's "mini-me" on newsnightit's also about our obsession with news - just exactly how and why it happens - and the power of real life stories versus the media's desire to shape them" written in jeremy's unmistakably lively and self-deprecating voice, it's all news to mepaints a vivid picture of what it's like to be trapped inside the bbc - arguably the most interesting organisation in the country - for 25 yearssee oxfam website for delivery information read morein it's all news to me, he takes a look back over his career from the very first day when he arrived at broadcasting house, (by coincidence an inauspicious news day - the fateful black monday ofoxfam bookshop cheltenham jeremy vine is one of the most successful broadcasters of recent years and in clocks up a quarter of a century at the bbche also explains what it's like presenting radio 2's lunchtime show and talking to 6 million listeners - people who, as he puts it "have better stories than we do
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