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TalkTV broadcaster Mark Dolan noted how the man known as the "piranha of the airwaves" had "reinvented the phone-in format in the UK - with stunning success".

The Palace issued instructions to the broadcasters about scenes that, once shown live, should never be shown again.

"It's an amazing story isn't it?" says Damon Hill, the former F1 champion and broadcaster.

So Night and Day was about journalism and its purposes; the Real Thing was about love and infidelity and starred Felicity Kendal, for whom Stoppard left his second wife, the doctor and broadcaster Miriam Stoppard.

It’s something we all know … but when broadcasters come out of commercial breaks showing the betting lines before the score, it’s easy to forget.