Mike Graham
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901 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 8 Feb
Mike Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, when I started, it was a very working class job.
to be a newspaper reporter.
You didn't go to Oxford, you didn't get a PPE degree and come out with a load of your mates and end up working for newspapers with a very posh accent.
People were tradesmen.
They didn't go to university.
They left school when they were 16.
They went and trained to be journalists.
They'd go to a journalist college.
They'd learn shorthand.
They'd learn the law.
They'd learn all sorts of other tricks of the trade that they would have to then use
And they'd be paid as a kind of slave, practically.
It's an indentured slave.
It was a better time.
It was.
It was.
But they learned about how to do the job properly.
And they'd get sent out with, say, the chief reporter.
They'd go and cover the local courts.
Nobody does that anymore.
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