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From ‘dead man walking’ to ‘dead man drinking’: BBC’s John Sweeney survives three redundancy letters

By William Turvill

Panorama reporter John Sweeney has survived three redundancy letters from the BBC, he has revealed.

Sweeney was first told he was facing redundancy in July 2014, when James Harding announced around 400 BBC News redundancies.

He has described the corporation's decision to make him redundant as "bewildering".

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