Wilfred De'Ath

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The youngest ever producer at the BBC, aged just 23. Now, into his eighties, an internationally acclaimed journalist, walks the streets of England and France but somehow survives. Arrested by Operation Yewtree in 2012 but later released. Has been described as "a George Orwell for our times".

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Regulars | By Wilfred De'Ath

No praise of older women

Wilfred De'Ath on sex, among other things

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Regulars | By Wilfred De'Ath

Wilfred De'Ath: I love hating the young

The café where I take my early morning coffee is full of student oarsmen who have either just come off the river or are about to go out on it. All they ever talk about in their squeaky, minor public school accents – girls as well as boys – is rowing. I have never heard them discuss anything else. I hate them.

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Regulars | By Wilfred De'Ath

Wilfred De'Ath

Golf and some awful holes

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Regulars | By Wilfred De'Ath

Wilfred De’Ath: Oxford vs Cambridge

'I have lived my life the wrong way round. I ‘read’ English Language and Literature at Oxford in the 1950s and now live in Cambridge. I would have done better to study English at Cambridge and live in Oxford, a much bigger and nicer city.'

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Regulars | By Wilfred De'Ath

My life in alcohol at the Beeb by Wilfred De'Ath

'In 1961, I joined BBC Radio features as a producer. At 23, I think I was the youngest producer in the Corporation. Now I am the last man standing'

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Wilfred De'Ath

My week on church floors, 'one gets into a rhythm after a while and I have to say I began to enjoy it'

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