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Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
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Louis Theroux
British and American journalist and author
The Weird Weekends theme music: Mini Skirt by Esquivel.
Richard Osman
English TV presenter and writer
The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash, or the theme tune to Pointless.
Lorraine Pascale
British model and cook
Desafinado, by Julie London.
Julia Stiles
American actress
When The Saints Go Marching In, by a New Orleans second line band.
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Lack of magnesium.
As an accomplished dancer and tennis player, because I do neither, so my loved ones would be very confused.
The Guardian’s review of my book.
My mother, Hannah: nearly 82, mother of four, homemaker, retired GP and knitter extraordinaire.
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