Welcome back to TBOTA! 

Celebrating fifty years in the industry, actor, author and raconteur Peter Bourke joins the show and we talk....

Going to school with Salem Bin Laden, turning down the role (and fortune) of C3PO, running an antiques business with Roald Dahl as he was writing the BFG, The Wade-Dahl-Till valve, working all the hours god sent for £3 a week (plus overtime) , Peter's relationship to the origins of The Importance of Being Earnest, Meeting Margaret Thatcher, Kate Nicholls' extraordinary life (See episode 53), The Thatcher Effect, Gielgud, Olivier, O'Toole, the irreplaceable and legendary Nicky Henson, and much more!

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