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No Such Thing As A Fish

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What Is the Original Desirne Program?

These days being invited onto Desirne desk is basically in Britain it's kind of a minor gong. I'm sure you guys found out that some people have done it twice. With those people I do wonder if was it just a matter of having not thoroughly researched what the program is? Well it could be. The original host was a guy called Roy Plumley who invented it and he invented it in the during the second world war. But he was incredibly austere about it and in fact he was so controlling that the early shows were scripted. So he would script each dialogue in advance and then they'd just sit and they'd read the script. And then that was it. It

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