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Interviews by Rich Pelley

DARK SECRETS: They wanted a host without much personality evan davis and peter jones on dragons den | Vintage Vibes

‘I thought my mum will be proud’ … an early lineup of Dragons with Peter Jones far right.
‘I thought my mum will be proud’ … an early lineup of Dragons with Peter Jones far right. Photograph: BBC/Rolf Marriott

Peter Jones, Dragon

I was running a fairly successful telecoms business and had a phone call from the BBC saying that they’d like to come and chat. I was intrigued enough to say yes. I was late for our meeting and while he was waiting for me, Martyn Smith, the BBC’s producer, was watching people coming into my office saying: “What do you think of that? Should we do this?” He asked me, “What were those people doing?” I said: “Coming in and pitching ideas.” He said: “You’re not going to believe it …”

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