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without Jones is a perfectly adequate late night news review; with Jones it is a world-class piece of television."
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706:"In the hot seat: the inquisitor Sarah Ferguson"
680:"Sarah Ferguson on 7.30 and what makes her tick"
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205:program as a reporter. In 1986, he went to the
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558:Lateline: The Team
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