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Australian Arts

Books shop

5 September 2020

9:00 AM

5 September 2020

9:00 AM

When the Irish comedian Dylan Moran was interviewed on ABC radio last year as a precursor to his (now presumably mothballed) 2020 Australian stand-up tour, he said that what drew him to the lead role in the TV comedy Black Books was the idea of a bookshop proprietor who hates everyone who enters his establishment and doesn’t want to sell them any of his stock.

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