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The Ian Hislop One

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Jan 12, 2018

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The Private Eye editor and Have I Got News For You stalwart Ian Hislop talks about being a sceptic but not a cynic, his admiration for the Victorians' political energy and why the Eye's satirical journalism matters.

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Jan 12, 2018

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Nick Robinson has a conversation with, not an interrogation of, the people who shape our political thinking about what shaped theirs.

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