For Angela Rippon, the life that she had planned out was never about being a star.
As a young girl, inspired by her father’s pictures from the Second World War, she had dreamed of becoming a photojournalist – ironically, firmly positioned behind the camera rather than in front of it.
But as she can now happily attest, life doesn’t always work out the way you think it might. Today, at 81, the former veteran BBC news presenter is a bona fide national treasure, poised to celebrate 60 golden years on the small screen, where she has been known as much for her
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