[Mark Bowden]

Happy to jin you all there.

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[Mark Bowden]

My goodness, I had completely forgotten about After Dark. Quite a bizarre programme though much lauded in its time and some say much missed. It had a format with no end and just carried on until those involved ran out of steam or got totally plastered. The programme I was on was about Ethiopia and I looked up the listing of who was there as follows
Ethiopa
14.10.89

With John Underwood, Mark Bowden, Mary Dines, Richard Balfe, Berhane Ghebrehiwot, Rebecca Astrate, Lord Bauer, Charles Stewart, Abadi Zemo

Abadi was the TPLF representative and affectionately known to some of us as the “one armed bandit’ as he had lost his arm in a grenade attack. Mary Dines had been head of War on Want. The most objectionable person was Lord Bauer recently enabled by Margaret Thatcher for his contribution to economics. He was a friend of Milton Friedman and famously anti government spending on development. At about two in the morning and after copious amounts of wine he said to me; ” Thought I should like you but I have decided I don’t to which I retorted “I don’t much care’. There you go for dazzling wit and repartee – well it was two o clock. I think we finished at three.

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