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Manchester Evening News
|December 24, 2025
Festive special: Bob and Paul
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YOU know that thing at the end of Desert Island Discs, when the famous castaway is asked which of the pieces of music they've chosen would be the one they'd pick above all others, if push were to come to shove? What, you don't listen to Desert Island Discs? Are you insane?
OK, well, trust me, that's what happens.
This story is from the December 24, 2025 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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