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Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.

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Tony Benn
Age: 88 †
Born: 1925
Born: April 3
Died: 2014
Died: March 14
Autobiographer
Diarist
Former Member Of The European Parliament
Politician
Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn
Politics
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Important
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Broadcasters
Broadcasting

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There is no moral difference between a stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. Both kill innocent people for political reasons.
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It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.
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A faith is something you die for a doctrine is something you kill for there is all the difference in the world.
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