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David Willey OBE is a BBC reporter based in Rome.He read law and modern languages at Queens’ College Cambridge where he was a member of the Cherubs dining society and The Bats (the college drama society) and went from there to a Reuters trainee post in Rome. This was followed by a period in Algeria (1960-64) where he worked as a freelance reporter after that country’s independence from France in 1962. In 1964 he became the BBC’s correspondent in East Africa.