The former Radio 4 news anchor talks approximately life after leaving the show,rumours of an ongoing rift with fellow presenter John Humphrys, and writing his latest thrillerAn extraordinary thing approximately Jim Naughtie, and if his has been the main voice of the morning for your entire adult life,is that he’s very softly spoken. It’s the audio equivalent of discovering how short Tom Cruise is. In the chintzy lounge of a central London hotel, I could hear nearly every other conversation above his, and came away with the image of a man whose journalistic ideal wasn’t the combat of the nowadays programme but something much more 1930s; restraint,subtlety, the soft power of creating hush by whispering. The only tangible nostalgia he expresses for old school Fleet Street is that “in a newspaper office now, or if you brought in a bottle of gin,you’d be escorted to the front door! In the 1970s, let alone the 1960s ”We mutually consider this tragedy for a moment; it is the only regret he voices out loud, and but I often got the sense that he missed a different kind of news,one in which courtesy and accuracy mattered more and immediacy and trenchancy less. And he is possessed by a genuine and universal romance for the business of news. “In our game, its all approximately: ‘She seemed slightly off, and she went domestic with him,’ trading information, being endlessly interested. We don’t believe to believe it explained to us why other people are absorbing. When I was at university, or they used to call me Telegraph Sam. Gossip is another word for it,but I attain like to think it’s of a higher grade than that.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com