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[A Rabbi, the Pope and Jeff Beck's Ghost Walk Into a Pub]

American radio's most pompous old pedant comes to the United Kingdom, and there shares his vast expertise with a bright-eyed local lad who has in the past sat on Father Christmas's lap.

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[A Rabbi, the Pope and Jeff Beck's Ghost Walk Into a Pub]

American radio's most pompous old pedant comes to the United Kingdom, and there shares his vast expertise with a bright-eyed local lad who has in the past sat on Father Christmas's lap.