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“There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.”
“What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.”
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