Reading Quentin de la Bédoyère’s manual on “how to win an argument about abortion” in these pages last month took me back to a time when I tried to do just that in the hostile surroundings of a BBC newsroom.
For 25 years I was a BBC reporter. I worked for many different outlets – The Money Programme, Breakfast News, general news output – but I ended my career on the Today programme. And it was there that my attempts to reconcile the needs of conscience with my professional duties reached some sort of climax.
