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26 February 2020

Greg James Q&A: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be president one day“

The radio DJ talks Alan Partridge, The Secret Life of Trees and a post-wedding Domino’s delivery. 

By New Statesman

Greg James was born in Lewisham in 1985. He first broadcast on hospital radio at age 14 and now hosts BBC Radio 1’s breakfast show, reaching more than five million listeners each week.

Driving a little blue pedal tractor around the garden aged four. I helped my mum do the gardening by collecting up the leaves and transporting them in the built-in trailer. I miss that tractor.

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