Will Self
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And, of course, the Groucho opened next door, and I knew Liz Calder was my publisher, and she was one of the people behind the club.
So we moved into the Groucho because they had better... Remember, the licensing laws...
still existed up until the Blair government.
So if you wanted a drink at 3 a.m., you had to belong to the Groucho.
And I used to play poker in there with Stephen Fry in the 80s.
So I already knew Soho very, very well indeed.
And Jim Moyer, Vic Rees, used to drink in the Groucho, and we used to drink together.
Jim said, why don't you come on the show?
Bob and I will have you on the show.
And I went, yeah, all right then.
And he said, oh, you're shitting me.
I'd never, my only ambition, Giles, has been fulfilled.
It was to publish my first book.