John Sergeant GIVE ME TEN SECONDS Signed Hardback
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John Sergeant GIVE ME TEN SECONDS Signed Hardback
First Edition, sixth print hardback of GIVE ME TEN SECONDS, by John Sergeant and published by Pan Macmillan Ltd., London in 2001. Signed by Sergeant on the title page.The book is in very good condition (Clean black cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, with only minor creasing to the spine edges) with slight wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges and spine, very slight rubbing to a couple of the corners). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.
"A deliciously funny insider account of British politics and of the BBC from one of our most highly regarded and well-liked broadcasters.
John Sergeant is ITNs Political Editor and before that spent thirty years at the BBC coalface, latterly as as their Political correspondent. He is widely respected both by the denizens of the Houses of Parliament and fellow journalists. This memoir will take the reader from his rather curious childhood and his somewhat eccentric parents, to his flirtation with show business as part of the sixties satire boom - he appeared in a post - Beyond the Fringe television comedy show written by and starring Alan Bennett; and from his early years in journalism on the Liverpool Post to his long career at the BBC.
Memorably handbagged by Margaret Thatcher on the steps of the Paris Embassy when she failed to win the Conservative leadership contest, and the recipient of Ron Davis's confessions about his midnight perambulations on Clapham Common, Sergeant has been the man on the spot in most of the major news stories of the last twenty years. His mordant wit, keen sense of the absurd and acute powers of analysis pervade the book. He has a wealth of funny anecdotes featuring many of the key political figures of our time and his understanding of the labyrinthine workings of Westminster - and of the corridors of Broadcasting House - is second to none."
307 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs.
ISBN: 0 333 90449 4
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