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Jonathon Ross has been such a fixture of British broadcasting for the last 30-odd years, appearing on TV and radio in such diverse projects as to , it’s easy to forget that he’s long been into fortean interest stuff, even fronting his own, now largely-forgotten series and , an ITV mid-evening offering from 1992 in which Ross, assisted by Wilf Lunn, “looked at strange but true stories from around the world, including sheep who faint” (it prompted correspondence in if memory serves, when he chatted with a chap who claimed to speak alien languages, echoing Patrick Moore’s similar interview with a man who “spoke Venusian” 20 years earlier).

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