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Hello.

When this program was first transmitted, I found it difficult not to talk about my great friend and academic colleague Stan Cohen.

You see, Stan was a keen collector of Jewish jokes.

Whenever I went round to see him, he'd have a new one nicely warmed up for me.

I won't attempt to reproduce any of them for all those town never marked my car. I pretty well knew that in the

grown-up world only Jews were allowed to tell Jewish jokes. And in any case

it wasn't the jokes themselves that provided such a cheery start to our get-togethers.

It was stands evident delight in telling them the opportunity

the jokes provided for him to simultaneously parade and yet gently

disturb his Jewish identity. Then, well, then it all ended.

My friend contracted Parkinson's disease and slowly,

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