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Apr 2021
42m 54s

Classic Desert Island Discs - Russell T ...

Bbc Radio 4
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Russell T Davies is one of the U.K.'s most successful television writers. He spent his teenage years learning his dramatic craft with the West Glamorgan Youth Theatre, and his career in television began in the children's department at the BBC. His first solo hit TV series was the ground-breaking, sexually frank drama Queer as Folk, first broadcast on Channe ... Show More
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