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'The type of person who makes the world work': remembering Anthony Smith

4 December 2021

9:00 AM

4 December 2021

9:00 AM

I’m not sure how many readers know the name of Anthony Smith, who died on Sunday aged 83, but a fair number will. He spent almost a decade at the BBC, helped start Channel 4, directed the British Film Institute, chaired many committees and for 17 years was president of Magdalen College, Oxford.

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