Omid Djalili
British stand-up comedian and actor
Boothby Graffoe calling up to pester me into promoting his new album, available on Amazon and iTunes.
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Anxiety. Usually the best response is to think hard about things, work up some solutions and then go to sleep.
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Our son. And ideas for Woman’s Hour, or businesses to start.
Julien Macdonald
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Thinking about the next day.
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I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.
I am happy now.
Not becoming chancellor.
Brighton, 1984. I was in another hotel just a few yards away.
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