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star Justin Webb says there has been an unexpected silver lining to lifting the lid in his memoir on the brutal goings-on at his childhood school. ‘My Radio 4 Today colleagues Mishal [Husain], Nick [Robinson] and Martha [Kearney] handle me with kid gloves now they know the horrors of my past,’ chuckles the broadcaster wryly. In the book, The Gift Of A Radio, now out in paperback, he reveals that bullying was rampant in the Quaker boarding school he attended in the 1970s.