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After coming down from Oxford, Morley joined Independent Television News and worked as a newscaster, reporter and scriptwriter, covering two elections, the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill and the birth of Milton Keynes. He once interviewed Mrs Thatcher when she was a junior minister for pensions. "It has been said, Mrs Thatcher," he began, "that England is a great place to live if you are neither very poor nor black." "Well, I'm not, am I?" she replied with finality.

Obituary of Sheridan Morley, Daily Telegraph, 18 February 2007.