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- ↑ "Cambridge Footlights Alumni 1990-1999". Footlights Official Website. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012.
- ↑ BBC Radio 4 – Bleak Expectations
- ↑ Archived 10 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
