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    In One Ear

    Mar 16, 2021 3 minutes
    ILLUSTRATION BY Dom McKenzie

    I HAVE ALWAYS been a diligent archivist. All my photos are in albums. My radio scripts are boxed away; my TV appearances, however fleeting, uploaded to Dropbox. Documents of note (my university admission letter, my ticket to the 2012 Olympics) reside in a sacred filing cabinet.

    Frankly, I’m not sure why I do this. Perhaps, as a young adult, I fantasised the British Library would one day build an annexe in my honour, so that future generations might marvel at my achievements and pronouncements. Now, nearly 40, I

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