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No sacred cows

My dislike of Blue Peter made me into the man I am today

3 February 2018

9:00 AM

3 February 2018

9:00 AM

When I tell my children about my own childhood, they often express disbelief about how wretched it was. No Xbox? No YouTube? No Snapchat? What on earth did I do with myself? But the thing they cannot get their heads around is that I had only three television channels to choose from.

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