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

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The Life and Times of Rory White

My mum collected golf memorabilia in a very extreme way. You couldn't exist in our house without seeing somewhere a statue of Litrovino. She wrote eight books about coffee table books, called things like the source book of golf, Golf the Golden Years out on the links. And this is because her lover was a great golfer. If you saw a picture of him now, you're thinking it would be like Roger Whittaker. Right, he had a kind of polo neck. He smoked a pipe. And he was a member of various golf clubs - which in 1973 to a Jew would have felt glamorous. I grew up with my dad. He was Welsh and working class

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