“Brian has compared presenting The World at One to high diving into an empty pool, and hoping it will be filled before you reach the bottom.”

—  Brian Hanrahan

BBC Radio 4 website 20 December 2010 http://web.archive.org/web/20100327045801/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/people/presenters/brian-hanrahan/

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British journalist and television presenter 1949–2010

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