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Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
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Gary Barlow
British singer
The cancan. It’s celebratory and it would demonstrate the ridiculousness of this life.
Rebecca Front
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Après un Rêve by Fauré.
Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
Patricia Hodge
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One of my favourite songs is Being Alive, from Company by Stephen Sondheim, but it would hardly be appropriate.
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As an accomplished dancer and tennis player, because I do neither, so my loved ones would be very confused.
My mother, Hannah: nearly 82, mother of four, homemaker, retired GP and knitter extraordinaire.
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