The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

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No wonder growing up in such an atmosphere gives Justin Webb a very depressed view of the decade in which he grew up – the 70’s. There are paragraphs on what he perceives to be the dismal state of Britain during that time – industrial strife, the three days week, the oil crisis etc.. There is nothing of the TV programmes, the music, the culture, the arrival of foreign holidays, the growing consumerism and affluence that children of his age were enjoying and realising that they’d really never had it so good.The Rolling Stones receive BRIT Billion award marking 1 billion career streams as they release first album in 18 years Inside Charles and Camilla's state dinner: King and Queen enjoyed lobster ravoli andsalmon with Champagne... Have YOU fallen prey to this toxic dating trend? Relationship experts lay bare the pitfalls of 'spider-webbing' - as they reveal how you can avoid becoming a victim of these VERY unhappy romances Gloria died in 2006. Webb is a devoted father to his own children. ‘It was instinctive to make sure that the things that went wrong for me didn’t go wrong for them, but of course you can overcompensate.’

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Now that I am a radio broadcaster, online trolls often take to social media after they discover I went to a fee-paying school. They post triumphant messages suggesting that I have no right to question Tory privilege or American imperialism because I had such a privileged upbringing myself. Baywatch blonde Donna D'Errico, 55, bares cleavage in sultry Halloween look as she BLASTS 'women haters' adding they can 'kiss my a**' Justin describes the family house as a deeply strange place to grow up. “It was just the weirdness and the snobbery and the rules we had about words that could or couldn’t be used. And the way it separated us off from people. I do think snobbery is such an interesting subject, not just because it’s so peculiar, but because it’s really difficult to get rid of. I can still feel my mother’s attitudes. I still can’t bring myself to say the word ‘toilet’ on Radio 4. I just can’t do it – it’s a real struggle.”Radio 4 is a national monument,” its former controller Michael Green declared. “And Alistair Cooke is one of its best-known gargoyles.”