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Writer / Podcaster / OCD / Doncaster Rovers Football Club / Ramones / Currently in a fight with cancer / linktr.ee/jamesjammcmahon / Agent: @MWHamilton
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Sunday with Michel Roux: ‘Where’s the coffee? Good quality coffee. Never instant. I can’t abide instant’

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By James McMahon Verified
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‘I’d be amazed if my grandchildren don’t become chefs to be honest’: Michel Roux.Photograph: Dan Wooller/Shutterstock What time are you up? I’m an early riser, I have been since I was a kid. I was working from the age of 16 in a pastry shop in Paris. That was a 4am start, so I suppose I got conditioned. I like to attack the day, even if it’s a Sunday. First thing you do? As soon as I’m awake, my first thought is, where’s the coffee? Good quality coffee. Never instant. I can’t abide instant.
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Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘The universe doesn’t frighten me. Words do’

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By James McMahon Verified
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‘Scientists need humility. We need to be able to accept being wrong’: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock.Photograph: Perou/The Observer I said we’d find evidence of alien life by the end of 2024. But I said that when I was on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, and my thinking was that if I said something outlandish they’d invite me back – if only to humiliate me. I’m sure alien life does exist. It’s just a numbers game. But we probably won’t get confirmation of it in the next three months. Science starts out as magic.
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Peter Hook: ‘I never get sick of hearing World in Motion’

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I never knew my dad. My parents split up when I was three years old. My mother hated him with a vengeance until the day she died. Years later, I found out he used to come and watch me when I was drinking in Salford. I didn’t know he was there. I only found out he’d died when I had a breakdown after I’d split up with Mrs Merton [first wife Caroline Aherne]. I went to live with Mum, and she said, “Oh, Peter, I’ve got something to tell you.
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