Barbara Scully
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with no mobile phone, so one phone in the hall.
And it was a colleague of my father's, not from the Customs Service, but another branch of the Civil Service who would have been very high profile because he was very senior, right?
So he would have had a degree of profile, public profile.
And I answered the phone and this man said, can I speak to Michael?
And I said, sure.
And I got my dad.
So I could only hear my dad's side of the conversation, which went like this.
The first thing my dad said was, oh, no, no, that was Barbara.
Obviously, let's call him George.
That wasn't his name.
Obviously, George thought I was my mother.
So my dad said, no, no, that was Barbara.
And then the next thing he said is, oh, no, no, she is working.
She has a job.
Yeah.
Now, this was the 80s.
A lot of people didn't have jobs.
He said, no, no, she is working.
She has a job.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.