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Something borrowed, something Huw

BBC royal wedding team: Fiona Bruce, Huw Edwards and Sophie Raworth
Leaving the fashion tips to the ladies ... Huw Edwards with Fiona Bruce and Sophie Raworth. Photograph: Dan Goldsmith/BBC

If Huw Edwards, selected by the BBC to anchor its royal wedding coverage, is the "new David Dimbleby", then what, the Radio Times asks him, does the "old" David Dimbleby make of it? "I don't see David very often and we have not spoken about this," replied Edwards, "but we get on very well and I am a great admirer of his work." Edwards will not be alone on the BBC's coverage – far from it, in fact, accompanied fellow newsreaders Fiona Bruce, Sophie Raworth and The One Show's Alex Jones, among others. But there are some aspects to the big day on which Edwards will be resolutely silent, he tells the listings mag. "There's no way I'm going to make myself into an instant expert on wedding dresses, for example. At that key moment when Kate steps from the car outside the abbey and reveals what she's wearing, I'll be more than happy to hand over to the women on the team." Steady on, Huw. There's no reason why men can't be experts on that sort of thing as well.

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