John Humphrys: "You are not answering the question" Please see our The Welsh presenter said he wanted to ask “embarrassing” questions that the Prince’s “minders” would have disliked.

However, Ms Thornberry also recognises his ability to hold politicians to account and "reflect the frustrations of the public", particularly in the pre-social media age. These are external links and will open in a new window "As foreign secretary under Tony Blair, Jack Straw had his fair share of quizzing by Humphrys, particularly over the Iraq War.

Humphrys told the Queen that her husband “was looking well yesterday”, to which Her Majesty retorted: “That’s because he’s not ill.” When Humphrys offered her a present – a DAB digital radio – the Queen looked at it and said: “I don’t get an awful lot of chance to listen to the radio.” Humphrys later laughed off accusations he was after a scoop, saying: “You can’t doorstep the Queen. During that time he developed a few strategies for dealing with him.

“No other presenter has come close to matching his record and the next longest serving host is Jim Naughtie, whose stint lasted 21 years and 291 days, between 1994 and 2015,” says the The paper also notes that has survived eight different editors of the Today programme and seven directors-general of the BBC, one of whom - George Entwistle - he helped bring down in a brutal 2012 interview, in which he exposed severe failings in the BBC chain of command after the broadcaster had incorrectly implicated a prominent politician in a sexual abuse scandal.Shortly after Julian Assange was freed on bail by the High Court in December 2010, he was pressed to answer questions about his sexual experience in an extraordinary interview with Humphrys. Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry says that while it is important to press politicians for answers, sometimes Humphrys can take it too far.In 2017 she criticised an interview with shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, where she claimed the BBC presenter interrupted and "sneered" at every answer he gave. John Humphrys interviewing former prime minister Tony Blair in 1997 "In Mandela’s case, it was freedom from 27 years in jail and a life lived under an inhuman apartheid regime.Mr Humphrys, a lifelong republican, also revealed there were some talks about him interviewing Prince Charles, but the heir to the throne “only wanted to talk about trees” so it was “no deal”.He also iinterviewed Prince Phillip on his 70th birthday.He said: “It was pretty boring except for a section when he got very cross because I’d asked him why the Queen hadn’t helped him out when he had to sell his racing yacht because of the expensive upkeep.

Assange replied: “A gentleman does not discuss his private life.” Pressured to tell the listeners how many women he had slept with, Assange answered: “A gentleman does not count.”It was a quote that haunted Tony Blair for years.

I would want to ask what his minders would regard as impertinent or embarrassing questions and that would be the end of that.”He described Harry, and wife Meghan Markle, as “the journalists’ gift that simply keeps on giving”.This week it was announced the couple have bought an £11million home in California.It was a move Humphrys called “PR suicide”, as he said: “Harry and Meghan bought it from a Russian oligarch who has allegedly threatened to chop up his wife.“Maybe they didn’t know about that. "When he was able to successfully fend off Humphrys' blows, Lord Heseltine says this prompted great amusement from BBC colleagues. "I enjoyed the challenge and the opportunity to put across my point of view - being confronted by defects in your arguments and hopefully having an answer to those. John Humphrys’ latest performance on BBC Radio 4‘s Today programme has left listeners asking when he’s finally going to retire.. Humphrys announced his retirement in February.

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