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a decade. Slightly mildewed diaries drying out after rescue from the cellar. Sons were born, we moved house eight times, and I had fun interviewing Wille Rushton, Studs Terkel and Chrissie Hynde, as well as commentating on the Sheep Shearing Finals at the Port Stanley 150th Anniversary Games.

Curiously, neither my current neighbour nor I have any recollection of meeting on the SITREP programme in April 1985, when he would have been the BBC Middle East Correspondent. The importance of written records.

Next - the cassettes.