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Episode 4

Dying of cancer, Miles Kington decided to use it as inspiration for absurd book ideas. The perfect funeral service; the perfect gravestone; 'parlez-vous cancer?'.

Miles Kington died of cancer in January 2008. Given little time to live by his doctors, he decided to make his cancer 'pay its way' by suggesting increasingly amusing and absurd ideas for a book to his agent Gill.

The perfect funeral service; the perfect gravestone; how Michael Palin gets all the best jobs; 'parlez-vous cancer?'.

15 minutes

Last on

Thu 23 Oct 2008 19:45

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  • Thu 23 Oct 2008 19:45

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