Ronald Harwood
South African playwright and novelist
Unpacking scenery from a pantechnicon for the Carl Rosa Opera Company.
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I did a terrible job of fixing the downstairs loo once.
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Doing an episode of Doctors was a bit of a nadir.
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A chihuahua giving you a cuddle.
Every offended interviewee who thought I was asking hard questions for some personal reason. It’s never personal.
I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.
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