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'The intellectual vigour was extraordinary. Feverish conversation'
'Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell' is coming to Radio 4, with Sir John Hurt playing his old friend 'Jeff' Bernard. Sir John took James Naughtie on a stroll around old Soho of the 1950s, where life was populated by colourful, sometimes grotesque characters, and punctuated by lost afternoons, sometimes days.
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