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On the last night of the Horizons warm up tour Robin has his most expense haul yet courtesy the Canterbury Oxfam. Books on motor runs, stone circles and imagination and via a Hitchcockian cameo we find out whether Professor Brian Cox knows who Alan Garner is.

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