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Contrary attention-seeker, brunette, after short story for broadcaster (4)

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'contrary attention-seeker brunette' is the definition.
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'after short story for broadcaster' is the wordplay.
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'story' becomes 'tale' ('tale' can be a synonym of 'story').
'for broadcaster' becomes 'k' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'tale' with its last letter taken away is 'tal'.
'tal' put next to 'k' is 'TALK'.

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(Other definitions for talk that I've seen before include "Utter" , "Rabbit" , "Gas" , "Chatter" , "Discourse" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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