Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant

by Barbara Hosking

jewelled dagger tucked in at his waist, walked past us. After three days we were off again, feeling like old hands as we boarded

and was glad when we could leave. That

My work with YTV had settled down into a happy routine when Paul Fox dropped another bombshell. He was leaving to return to the BBC as managing director of their television network. I was appalled. I didn’t want any changes in my life. But life