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For more than three decades, millions of Britons have woken to the sound of John Humphrys voice. As presenter of Radio 4s Today, the nations most popular news programme, he is famed for his tough interviewing, his deep misgivings about authority in its many forms and his passionate commitment to a variety of causes. A Day Like Today charts Johns journey from the poverty of his post-war childhood in Cardiff, leaving school at fifteen, to the summits of broadcasting. Humphrys was the BBCs youngest foreign correspondent; he was the first reporter at the catastrophe of Aberfan, an experience that marked him for ever; he was in the White House when Richard Nixon became the first American president to resign; in South Africa during the dying years of apartheid; and in war zones around the globe throughout his career. John was also the first journalist to present the Nine OClock News on television. Humphrys pulls no punches and now, freed from the restrictions of being a BBC journalist, he reflects on th
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