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12: David Baddiel: God, Anti-Semitism and the Y-Word

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The Relationship Between My Mum and a Working Class Man

Alice's parents married in the late 50s and 60s. She would not have known anything about that, but she might have been aware of it. What there wasn't, I think, was an intellectual connection between them at all. And what I think Alice was going to say, which I think is true, is that when my mum was disappointed in the mid-70s with her life and her marriage, this guy appeared. It was a version of the life that she might have had if the Nazis had never appeared. If the Nazis hadNever appeared, she would have probably married some kind of Austrian prince in her mind. That's the best that Cricklewood in 1975 could

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