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25 April 2018updated 28 Jun 2021 4:39am

It’s that time again. The annual phone call from Footlights College asking me for money

Here is the clever bit: they always, for some reason that I cannot possibly fathom, choose a nice young woman to call me up, and be extra friendly. 

By Nicholas Lezard

I am in the kitchen, talking with my eldest son. We are having the conversation about drugs.

“Well, of course, where I went as a student, there was so much beautiful architecture that if you felt you were going to be having a bad time on acid, all you had to do was go and look at it. Whereas where you are, in Manchester…”

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