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Simon Schama: I’m on tour – singing. Yes, seriously

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

15 June 2019

9:00 AM

It was when the kindly folk at the Theatre Royal Haymarket said ‘You’ll be in Paul Whitehouse’s dressing-room’ that it sunk in: the epic biting off of more than I could chew. But there was no going back. In a couple of hours, I would be on stage — and this time, I’d sing.

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