Interrupting him, Buscombe said that "she didn't have the power" to investigate the phone hacking story properly - and separately insisted that "I'd never had my personal strings pulled" by any of the newspaper groups that fund the PCC.
Sometimes this means historical speculation or geological explanation; sometimes, as in his account of a long walk over the Cairngorm massif, it is something more personal: a string of memories of his grandfather, who lived his last years among the same mountains.
That leaves this as a slightly redundant exercise in biopic box-ticking and corner-cutting, puffed up with awards-friendly grandeur and less interested in the political questions than the personal heart-strings.
In the one-room Net bar in Kashgar, where eight personal computers were strung together with a tangle of wires, the coal-burning stove spewing black smoke was not enough to keep my fingers from becoming too cold to type.
Then came a string of personal and professional defeats.
Indiscipline, heightened by personal rivalries, created a string of difficulties for the party and its leader.
Costly modification – as well as a string of personal injury claims – soon followed.
But after rehearsing for the tour, a string of personal and business disagreements with Mr. Bowie led Vaughan to quit.
He talks readily about a string of personal tragedies, including the murder of his 18-year-old daughter.
However, from the late 1990s onwards he was beset by a string of personal crises and clashes with the law caused by drug use.
