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	John Humphrys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Humphrys (born 17 August 1943) is a British radio and television presenter.
		John Humphrys was born in Splott, a suburb of Cardiff, and was educated at Cardiff High School, leaving to become a teenage reporter on the Penarth Times.
		Humphrys attracted further controversy in September 2005 when he allegedly branded all politicians as liars and made comments about Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and John Prescott in an after-dinner speech which was subsequently leaked to The Times by Tim Allan, an aide to the Prime Minister [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Humphrys (564 words)

	Radio 4 - The Today Programme - Presenters
		John joined the BBC as a reporter based in Liverpool in 1966 and a year later became Northern Industrial Correspondent.
		In 1981 John joined the Nine O'Clock News team as its main presenter before moving to the Today programme in 1987 and in addition becoming, in September 1993, the presenter of BBC1's former weekly political programme, On the Record.
		John was born in Cardiff on August 17, 1943.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/today/about/meet/pres.shtml?humphrys (443 words)

	BBC - South East Wales Public Life - John Humphrys
		Humphrys has two grown-up children, and is reliving the joys of fatherhood with a young son born in 2000.
		John is good at putting some politicians in their place and it becomes apparent that some of them get edgy when John asks some questions that aren’t so easy to divert around.
		Humphrys is as bad as the rest in that but it's the pot calling the kettle fl (if I'm allowed to use that word) when the BBC criticises the broadcaster for criticising the politicians who then complain to the BBC.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/halloffame/public_life/john_humphrys.shtml (2809 words)

	Science Show - 13 October 2001 - John Humphrys
		John Humphrys: Mmm because he likes it and because he was worried about what it was doing to us all.
		John Humphrys: Well I think the answer to that is in the way we responded to organic food production, that does not use all these hormones and chemicals and god know what else and antibiotics of course, grotesque.
		John Humphrys: I think pretended is probably the right way, what I found was a great deal of shit, I mean these salmon are packed into cages, 100 thousand or more, in a relatively small cage, each salmon has the equivalent of half a bath tub full of water.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/scienceshow/stories/2001/394370.htm (1387 words)

	John the Fearless - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		JOHN THE FEARLESS [John the Fearless] 1371-1419, duke of Burgundy (1404-19); son of Philip the Bold.
		In 1413, John was again forced to flee Paris as a result of a reaction against the violence of his supporters, the Cabochiens.
		John negotiated both with Henry V and with the dauphin (later King Charles VII), who now led the Armagnacs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-johnf1ear.html (539 words)

	The Gordon Poole Entertainment Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Humphrys was the first of the BBC’s journalists to present front-line news programmes on both television and radio.
		John Humphrys writes for the Sunday Times, contributes regularly to other newspapers and magazines and also writes a weekly column for the political Internet web site YouGov.Com.
		John Humphrys has worked for most of the major corporations and trade and industry bodies in Britain and in many overseas countries over the years.
	www.gordonpoole.com /speakers/JohnHumphrys.htm (743 words)

	The Observer \| Comment \| Welsh terrier
		Humphrys was also involved in the notorious interview with Andrew Gilligan that sparked the Kelly affair, and was one of four people Campbell fingered in his triumphalist post-Hutton speech as needing to leave the BBC.
		John Humphrys is paid hundreds of thousands of pounds by the BBC and runs around the country saying that politicians are lying shits'.
		Leaving aside the inaccuracy (Humphrys actually said that politicians who tell the truth all the time don't become ministers, that a minority of politicians don't care if they lie or not, but that in his view most politicians had integrity), there is a definite sense here that Humphrys is making too much money.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,6903,1567226,00.html (1720 words)

	JOHN HUMPHRYS Biography
		John Humphrys was the first of the BBC's journalists to present front-line news programmes on both television and radio - Today on Radio Four and Television News on BBC.
		John became a controversial figure in March 1995, when he was attacked for his style of interviewing by some leading Conservative politicians, notably Jonathan Aitkin.
		John Humphrys bought a dairy farm in 1980 and made a brave, if not wholly successful, attempt to turn it into an organic operation.
	www.normanphillips.co.uk /john_humprhys_bio.htm (378 words)

	Sabotaging a star, Tim Luckhurst - British Journalism Review Vol. 17, No. 2, 2006
		Humphrys, the 62-year-old veteran former foreign correspondent and only genuine household name in the Today line-up, is considered inconvenient by many of the keenly populist, non-confrontational types who now run BBC news and current affairs.
		One of the presenter’s allies — and this is not code for John Humphrys himself — describes it as “the equivalent of an invitation to contemplate the gravity of one’s wrongdoing before being admitted to the headmaster’s study for a thrashing”.
		John Barton’s response was robust, but from that moment on, when meeting Labour politicians, BBC executives expected to hear a torrent of abuse directed not just at Today but at John Humphrys himself.
	www.bjr.org.uk /data/2006/no2_luckhurst.htm (1933 words)

	John Humphrys - The London Speaker Bureau
		John Humphrys was the first of the BBC's journalists to present front-line news programmes on both television and radio: Today on Radio Four and Television News on BBC1.
		Humphrys became a controversial figure in March, 1995 when he was attacked for his style of interviewing by the Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken.
		Humphrys bought a dairy farm in 1980 and made a brave attempt to turn it into an organic operation.
	www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk /speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=16 (462 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| Correspondents \| John Humphrys
		Mention John Humphrys, and most people will give you one of two replies: the Today programme, and tough interviewing.
		John Humphrys was born in Cardiff in 1943, and went to Cardiff High School.
		John Humphrys reports on the controversial execution of Gary Gilmore in the United States
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/correspondents/newsid_2624000/2624381.stm (357 words)

	John Humphrys Corporate after dinner speaker
		For Ten years he was a foreign correspondent with the BBC and over the years he's reported on most major international events, ranging from the Watergate crisis and resignation of Richard Nixon to the first free elections in South Africa and assorted wars in all parts of the globe.
		Humphrys became a controversial figure in March, 1995 when he was attacked by some leading Conservative Politicians, notably Jonathan Aitken.
		Humphrys has owned a dairy farm and made a brave, if not wholly successful, attempt to turn it into an organic operation.
	www.theedge-uk.com /john_humphrys.htm (526 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| BBC reprimands 'misguided' John Humphrys
		The BBC's director general, Mark Thompson, yesterday risked picking a fight with his most combative star presenter when he rebuked John Humphrys for making "inappropriate and misguided" remarks that could be used to call the corporation's impartiality into question.
		The verdict was an attempt by the BBC to end the row over a speech Humphrys made to the Communication Directors Forum in June, in which he mocked senior Labour politicians and said some "couldn't give a bugger" whether they lied or not.
		Humphrys, who was yesterday being paid to host a Department of Trade and Industry seminar, admitted that his remarks may have been a little "ham-fisted", but said he would continue to give light-hearted speeches outside his work for the BBC.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /media/story/0,12123,1564276,00.html (750 words)

	After dinner speakers, public speakers UK, after dinner speakers UK, UK after dinner speakers
		John is an excellent corporate speaker, heavy weight event host and brilliant after dinner speaker.
		John Humphrys has developed an enviable reputation as the journalist politicians fear to face, and although his style has occasionally been controversial, it also earned him the Journalist of the Year award for 2000.
		John has also spent 10 years trying - and failing - to run an organic dairy farm, an experience which once led him to comment, "Taking on a Cabinet minister is as nothing to handling three tons of kicking cow".
	www.krugercowne.com /johnhumphrys.html (365 words)

	Amazon.de: Devil's Advocate: English Books: John Humphrys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Humphrys has been a journalist since he left school at the age of 15.
		Humphrys believes it's "consumer populism"--everything being judged according to its commercial value.
		The situation is exacerbated by the media, which is also under commercial pressure, and becoming increasingly trivial in a bid to chase the ratings.
	www.amazon.de /Devils-Advocate-John-Humphrys/dp/0099279657 (495 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| BBC criticises Humphrys' speech
		In a statement, the corporation said Humphrys, 62, accepted some of his phrases were "injudicious" and as a presenter it was vital he was seen to be impartial.
		The Times reported Humphrys said in his speech the BBC "got it right" in a controversial report that claimed the government "sexed up" intelligence in Iraq's weapons capabilities.
		Humphrys said it was a "gross misrepresentation" that he had called politicians liars and added he had not said anything he had not said before.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4220096.stm (349 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Great Food Gamble: Books: John Humphrys (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Humphrys, broadcaster, writer, farmer and consumer, has written The Great Food Gamble to address the serious questions he and many of his audience have about the food on our tables in the wake of BSE, foot and mouth, and concerns about the effects of factory farming practices on the nation's health and environment.
		Humphrys knowledgeably traces such intensive agricultural practices to British food policy from the end of the Second World War to ask whether the relentless drive for more and more food has been a mistake and whether the risks we run are worth it to have what may ultimately prove to be an illusion of choice.
		Humphrys' prose is unashamedly popular: evocative and even nostalgic for a fast disappearing experience of the British countryside, even as he stops short of being romantic.
	www.amazon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /Great-Food-Gamble-John-Humphrys/dp/0340770465 (1295 words)

	David Rowan: Interview: John Humphrys, BBC Radio 4/BBC TV (Evening Standard) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The value of a John Humphrys interview is his rare freedom, as a senior BBC freelance, to speak his mind openly - often to the corporation's own embarrassment.
		Humphrys insists that he has not been making "some great protest" about TV, simply that radio has met all his needs.
		As for today's allegations of bias, Humphrys is "baffled" that the BBC defends itself against accusations of being " outrageously liberal".
	www.davidrowan.com /2004/08/interview-john-humphrys-bbc-radio-4bbc.html (1246 words)

	Today Programme Presenter, John Humphrys, Wins Top Journalist Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Humphrys was awarded at the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA) headquarters in Grosvenor Crescent in front of an audience including leaders in other professional Institutes, industry, commerce and the quality arena.
		Humphrys, who has a reputation for being one of the toughest interviewers on radio or television, has earned this top award for the challenging questions he subjected top industry leaders to, including Lord Sainsbury of Turville, parliamentary under-secretary of state for science, at Q2002 - the 46th EOQ World Quality Congress in Harrogate last year.
		John Humphrys said, "I'm not sure that journalists are typically associated with quality, so this is a rare honour in every sense."
	www.iqa.org /press/c2-24.shtml (490 words)

	The Scotsman - Humphrys' 'boring Brown' speech misguided but not biased - BBC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Today presenter John Humphrys said reports that the government had 'sexed up' the Iraq weapons document were correct.
		RADIO presenter John Humphrys was carpeted by the BBC last night for a private after-dinner speech in which he made a string of disparaging remarks about government ministers.
		Mr Humphrys said he was misrepresented by the Times article, insisting he had made a "a good humoured, light-hearted speech" which conveyed "a great affection for politicians".
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1900372005 (1104 words)

	Classic John Humphrys \| Cosmic Variance
		John Reid started out by talking about the “positive” things that have been going on in Iraq as a result of the invasion and Humphrys (sometimes a bit hasty to draw blood, but in classic form) sets out at a running pace - questioning and probing relentlessly.
		John Reid rallies well in places, too, and so it is not all one sided.
		Believe it or not, but the BBC journalists such as Humphrys and Paxman (see the transcript of the Blair interview mentioned above) are not known to have a particular political preference….in fact they are expressly forbidden from expressing it by their employer.
	cosmicvariance.com /2005/08/12/classic-john-humphrys (1081 words)

	John Humphrys Presenter and Speaker - Interphiz
		John Humphrys became a controversial figure in March 1995, when he was attacked for his style of interviewing by some leading Conservative politicians, most notably Jonathan Aitken.
		He famously accused John of "poisoning the well of democratic debate" with his aggressive style.
		The Daily Mail described him in an editorial as "one of the most brilliant journalists in the country" and The Express ran a column demanding "Humphrys for Prime Minister", it concluded: "Politics would be richer, but the BBC would probably close down through lack of interest".
	www.interphiz.com /presenters/jhumphrys.html (424 words)

	Descendents of John Vingoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John was a part owner of a lugger with Richard Treeve of Sennen.
		John Mitchell 9, George Mitchell 7, William Mitchell 6, Edith Mitchell 4, Helen Mitchell 2, Mary E Mitchell 1.
		John VINGOE bt 6 Dec 1786 - d.
	members.tripod.com /landsendvingoe/descendents_of__john_vingoe.htm (1914 words)

	Humphrys under fire in Lord’s inquisition :: Freelance UK
		Tough-talking John Humphrys has swallowed a large dose of his own no-nonsense interviewing style after being grilled by a panel of Labour lords over his combative journalism.
		But the inquisition for Humphrys was not over, as Lord Maxton, former Glasgow Cathcart MP, pressed the broadcaster further as to how he sees his role in the media.
		Amid the din of sniggers, Humphrys said he rejected the Lord’s claims “entirely,” and after taking a few moments to compose himself, reacted to the accusation of bias questioning.
	www.freelanceuk.com /news/1200.shtml (620 words)

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		The tables were turned on the political interviewer John Humphrys yesterday when peers rounded on him for talking more than his guests on Radio 4's Today programme.
		The veteran journalist vehemently denied he allowed his personal opinion to influence his line of questioning and told the House of Lords Select Committee on BBC charter renewal that it was his job to hold those in power and government to account.
		Mr Humphrys also defended self-regulation of the BBC from attack by its commercial rivals and rejected calls for the BBC to be overseen by an external regulator, saying although it would give the appearance of transparency, in practice the present system of governors "worked pretty well".
	www.warmwell.com /05june30humphrys.html (1162 words)

	The Radio Academy - Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He has a reputation as one of the toughest of political interviewers, but his confrontational style is tempered by humour and informed by assiduous preparation.
		John Humphrys was educated at Cardiff High School, then learned his journalistic trade on local newspapers, culminating with a period on the Western Mail, before joining the BBC as a reporter in 1966.
		It was there that Humphrys earned his reputation as one of the toughest of political interviewers, yet his confrontational style is tempered by humour and informed by assiduous preparation.
	www.radioacademy.org /halloffame/humphrys_j (312 words)

	HUMPHRIES FAMILY OF PASQUOTANK COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA
		John Humphrys will, NC Secretary of State original wills, FHL microfilm 1,605,225, frame 282.
		Jan. 1740 John petitioned for his part of the estate, to be satisfied by Joseph Morgan.
		Jonathan Humphris chose John Humphris as his guardian, implying he was at least age 14.
	home.netcom.com /~fzsaund/humphries.html (443 words)

	Indiantelevision.com > News Room Headlines > BBC DG Thompson dismisses reports that Beeb softening news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Using the recent row about John Humphrys as its 'evidence', the pieces claim that the BBC is muzzling its journalism in an effort to keep government ministers happy.
		In his e-mail Thompson said the claim was "a straightforward lie" as he and the chairman had only discussed launching an inquiry into Humphrys' speech.
		He phoned me to say he intended to put out a short statement saying that he would be asking me to report back to him and the other Governors on the story in due course.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k5/oct/oct80.htm (713 words)

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