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Bombshell News at the BBC as we record this episode at lunchtime on Friday, Andrew

Marr is leaving the corporation in the new year.

He's going to go and do some radio and write for some newspapers.

And this is big news because not only is he a big name and lots of people love him,

but we all love working with him.

So there are some, some jaws on the floor and some slightly concerned Luke in the BBC

offices.

But it just reminded me of that time he came on newscast in the summer and we had a really

lovely chat where he recommended a book for me to read on my holidays and it was by

JB Priestley.

So this is a wonderful book that he wrote in 1934 when JB Priestley was then probably

the best known figure on the sort of centre left of British politics as a writer.

Better known I think in those days than George Orwell was.

And in 1934 he did a tour around all the parts of England that were struggling economically

and nobody else wrote about.

So in the black country, the pottery, parts of Bristol up and down the Lincolnshire and

East Angling coasts and so forth.

And of course the northern cities.

And it is an almost perfect tour of what you would call Brexit England or you know left

behind Brexit voting England.

And he's always asking the same questions.

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