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  • The Oldie

    The boldest link

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes
    BRIGID KEENAN

    Afternoons have just got a whole lot livelier.

    Anne Robinson has become the first female host on Countdown, the game show beloved by afternoon TV viewers.

    Robinson and I were at school together 65 years ago. Her family were Irish Catholics in Liverpool. From a list of convent schools they had selected for her, she chose Farnborough Hill because she liked its uniform blazer. (I hated the blazer.)

    After school, our lives went in

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