Sarah Sands

How I’ll remember John Humphrys — by his producer Sarah Sands

Of course Humphrys’s interviewing style was masterly, says Sands — but more extraordinary still was his reportage, especially from Aberfan in 1966

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  • A Day Like Today

    John Humphrys

    William Collins, pp. 400, £20

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