Past Imperfect: Justin Webb on a life saved by radio
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Today's episode comes courtesy of our sister podcast: Past Imperfect.
Justin Webb is a broadcaster who has spent almost four decades at the BBC, from North America correspondent to co-presenter on Radio 4's Today programme. He joins Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson in the studio to talk about the impact never meeting his father had on him, the mental health struggles that he experienced his step-father suffer from, and the bullying he faced at boarding school.
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