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"Remember, PM is not here to give financial advice. Your interest in the programme may go down as well as up."
"… and if you want to hear more of that interview, fly to America and watch TV on Sunday night."
"Moments later he punched her unconscious. [Pause] No, he didn't, don't send us letters"
"Do you have any trouble sleeping at night? [Reply] No, sir. I sleep very well."
"We asked a minister for an interview - you know the rest."
"...makes my TV work look professional."
"Mair: "That'll be the police for you now...""
"I've been waiting to be arrested all day. I'm disappointed!" [Mair replies] "We're all with you on that one."
"...so do wrap up!"
"David Cameron there, just a short walking distance away from our microphone."
"So those of you listeners who don't want to hear what the weather will be like in six months time... look away now."
"The population of the United Kingdom has, for the first time, reached sixty million. If they stood on each other's shoulders they would reach perhaps twenty feet in the air before toppling over."
""...and if you want to see a picture of Nils"
"I'm sorry for croaking at you this evening. This is PM, I'm Eddie Mair: the walrus of news."
"Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers"."
".... well with me now is Geoffrey Robinson. He was once voted 'After-dinner Speaker of the Year', so if you've had your tea, you're in for a treat"
"Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick."
"Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny..."
"… the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache."
"Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran … in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean."
"Yesterday people were going past my window in t shirts and dresses. But that's the men at the BBC for you."
""As a Doctor, I'm often asked: why can't we see more pictures of Albania?"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.