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  1. 08-10-11 11:31 AM #1
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    Anyone read this?

    This Charming Man: The Life of Ian Carmichael: Amazon.co.uk: Robert Fairclough: Books
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  2. 08-10-11 02:20 PM #2
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    Cheers Capt.!
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  3. 08-10-11 05:06 PM #3
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    I didn't even know this was out, so thanks from me too! One of my treasured trinkets (won in a draw) is a 'Lifemanship' graduation certificate - a promo mock up - signed by the great man himself. What a wonderful Lord Peter he was too...

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    It's okay but I found the huge chunks of quotes a bit lazy - it's as if he wanted to use every word anyone told him, so some quotes last three pages!
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    I recommend his autobiography, "Will The Real Ian Carmichael..." (Book Club Associates by arrangement with Macmillan), which was published in 1979 and therefore covers the most productive parts of his professional career in cinema and television.
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    A transcript of an NFT interview

    BFI | Features | NFT Interviews | Ian Carmichael
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  7. 19-10-11 10:30 AM #7
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    O found his autobiog to be rather slow to move on amd rather boring in parts.took over 200 pages to reach the end of WW2.So i hope the biog is an improvement.
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  8. 20-10-11 06:08 AM #8
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    The book has an interesting claim that he was blacklisted in the early 80s after doing some radio plays in South Africa. However no evidence is provided and any long career is going to have its fallow periods.
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