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I ACCEPT the view of those criticising me (Letters, May 30) that it probably wasn't the cleverest of moves to hurl abuse at Ian Bell while criticising him for doing the same to Sir David Frost. That that is not my usual mode of writing, however, illustrates all the more the anger I felt at Ian Bell's ungracious style of journalism.
I don't expect interviewers these days to be reverential but I do expect them to be polite and courteous. David Frost gets far more out of his interviewees than Jeremy Paxman does. So let me be positive and praise Kirsty Wark, Edward Stourton, John Milne, Jim Naughtie, Gavin Esler, Tim Sebastian, etc.See the full content of this document
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Fond of Frost
Ian Bell may not "glitter" as muc...
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