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This is delicious. Heard again of late as part of the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of BBC Radio 4\\u2019s \\u2018World at One\\u2019 or WATO as it\\u2019s become known.\\nJames Naughtie bagged an interview with Neil Kinnock, then Labour Party leader, just before the programme went to air in May 1989. Neil, now Lord, Kinnock was a little tetchy at the time, having arrived hotfoot from an NEC meeting \\u2013 an experience he confessed amounted to \\u2018sitting on a cactus in my swimming trunks\\u2019. At the end of his tether, Neil explodes on a persistent Naughtie question. The exchange was never broadcast at the time, but was retained \\u2013 and leaked.\\nLater here, the two are reunited and - with mutual good nature and respect - enjoy recollections of the day.