Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
6. 
   Prologue
7. 
   Part 1 – Yesterday and Today
8. 
   1 A childhood of smells
9. 2 The teenAGE pAGE
10. 3 Building a cathedral
11. 4 A gold-plated, diamond-encrusted tip-off
12. 5 A sub-machine gun on expenses
13. 6 A job that requires no talent
14. 
    Part 2 – Today and Today
15. 
    7 A very strange time to be at work
16. 8 Why do you interrupt so much?
17. 9 ‘Come on, unleash hell!’
18. 10 A pretty straight sort of guy?
19. 11 Management are deeply unimpressed
20. 12 Hamstrung by a fundamental niceness
21. 13 A meeting with ‘C’
22. 14 The director general: my part in his downfall
23. 15 Turn me into a religious Jew!
24. 
    Part 3 – Today and Tomorrow
25. 
    16 The political deal
26. 17 Shrivelled clickbait droppings
27. 18 Goodbye to all that
28. 
    Picture Section
29. 
    Also by John Humphrys
30. About the Author
31. About the Publisher