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From National Near Miss Day to the two shirts

From National Near Miss Day to the two shirts

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“It all went wrong, they didn’t want me!”


“You might even have a theatre named after you in the West End.”


In this episode Daniel and Hugh discuss:


Daniel’s near miss - The Japanese Red Army Faction’s Mortar / Hugh’s near miss - Hugh auditions for the festival theatre / Maxi Snelling / Mary Ellen Best / Paint brushes made from her hair / York Lunatic Asylum / Mary in Nice / Daniel in Bombay / The Pearly King of Croydon / a broken heart: sedatives and lithium / a dodgy canapé / the two shirts!


Further Reading:

Mary Ellen Best: https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Mary-Ellen-Best/dp/0701129050 ~

Rome Red Army Japan Incident: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/world/rome-explosions-shake-us-and-british-embassies-and-wreck-car.html ~

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