Bondi Beach

The rough, simple and cheerily thick lifeguards of Bondi Rescue. Image: Mojo Down Under

All the good non-fiction that was ever on TV was made by middle-aged men

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All the good non-fiction things that were ever on TV — from Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation to David Attenborough’s Planet Earth…

I averted the wrath of the students by telling them I’d had a sex change

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I went to Australia with my constant companion Hilary, the only woman in England I’m not paying alimony to. She…

Jockey Colm O'Donoghue

The rewards for breaking rules of horse-racing have to stop

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One of Alan Bennett’s characters once lamented, ‘We tried to set up a small anarchist community …but people wouldn’t obey…