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John Humphrys


Born
in Splott, The United Kingdom
August 17, 1943

Genre
Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality


Desmond John Humphrys is a Welsh author, journalist and presenter of radio and television, who has won many national broadcasting awards. From 1981 to 1987 he was the main presenter for the Nine O'Clock News, the flagship BBC news television programme, and since 1987 he has been a presenter on the award-winning BBC Radio 4 programme, Today. He is also currently the host of the popular BBC Two television quiz show Mastermind.

John Humphrys has written several books, including Lost for Words, in which he criticizes what he sees as the widespread misuse of the English language, plus 'Devil's Advocate', 'Beyond Words', 'The Great Food Gamble' and 'In God We Doubt: Confessions Of A Failed Atheist'. Humphrys is an agnostic, but has a curiosity to ...more

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Blue Skies and Black Olives...
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A Day Like Today: Memoirs
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Lost for Words : The Mangli...
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In God We Doubt: Confession...
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Beyond Words
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The Welcome Visitor
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John Humphrys' Autobiography
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“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more precise our vocabulary, the greater the scope for thought and expression. Language is about subtlety and nuance. It is power and it is potent. We can woo with words and we can wound. Despots fear the words of the articulate opponent. Successful revolutions are achieved with words as much as with weapons.”
― John Humphrys, Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English
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“He has his world and I have mine and we each speak our own kinds of English in them. But we also have a shared world where we need a dependable common language if we are all going to get by. And”
― John Humphrys, Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now
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“Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what’s behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity addressed”
― John Humphrys, Beyond Words: How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now
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