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Radio is what I love most of all. The wonderful excitement of what could happen in live radio, when everything that could go wrong did go wrong. I was making a couple of thousand a week, scampering in ambulances from studio to studio, and committing much of what I made to support the Mercury. I wouldn't want to return to those frenetic 20-hour working day years, but I miss them because they are so irredeemably gone.
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- 1 2 Did You Know?, Nazi Eyes on Canada, CBC Archives
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- ↑ "The Stranger". Kino Lorber. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
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