I lost the job, but the well the honest truth is that this has been embellished by, probably by me, in the sense that there were two of us who were taken on as trainees, and this was in the, the, the 80s, I think it was the late 80s, and it was him or me who was going to get the job at the end of, at the end of, eight months or nine months.... It was, it was absolutely, it was mano-a-mano and of course it was him who got it.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I lost the job, but the well the honest truth is that this has been embellished by, probably by me, in the sense that there were two of us who were taken on as trainees, and this was in the, the, the 80s, I think it was the late 80s, and it was him or me who was going to get the job at the end of, at the end of, eight months or nine months.... It was, it was absolutely, it was mano-a-mano and of course it was him who got it." in the context of "Interviewed on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4 (30 October 2005)
• On his short placement as a journalist at The Times. In fact, rather than failing to beat another trainee to win a permanent position, he was sacked in 1988 for falsifying a quotation by his godfather, Colin Lucas." to mean that wisdom is timeless.