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Well, I hope you've eaten *something* since then...

Yes, now I have. But this piece of cake won't go amiss.

Cake never goes amiss. Chocolate cake or apple cake, for preference, but any sort will do.

Hi Ivan

I've just 'seured' an interview with David Helfgott in a nearby city on Sunday - and to be at the concert he is giving.

He is protector of the Awakenings Festival (can't remember ig I told you this before. I've too many balls in the air.)

*inserts a missing 'c'*

I'm breaking my own rule and posting from w*rk. Don't tell anyone.

Where is David Helfgott performing on the Sunday?

He's certainly an interesting man...

He is performing in the Culture House, (Kulturhuset), in Skanderborg. http://billetsalg.kulturhuset-skanderborg.dk/salg/

I really haven't got a clue what I will ask him. I have to research. Lent my copy of Shine to one of my pupils, and now I wonder whether I've only seen bits of it. But the internet must reveal some story, surely, apart from his own site, which is last updated in 2005, as far as I can see (except for the tourplan - he's been to Estonia recently), and publish only a few articles, short and to the point, but too short for me.

I wouldn't know what to ask him either. He's such an unusual man; even a simple question might lead to an interesting outcome.

Here's a transcript of a television interview; I don't know if you've seen this. You'll see that Mr Helfgott is quite impulsive sometimes, maybe even a little hard to follow. http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/profiles/Transcripts/s1059450.htm

(George Negus is one of our best-known TV journalists.)