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Remembering David Widgery

Michael Gray, Michael Gray Outtakes, 2012

IT'S 20 YEARS since the writer, socialist and East End of London doctor David Widgery died prematurely, and I want to join those who have written about him in recent days. I'm not sure I was a friend of his – perhaps we were only good acquaintances – but he occupied a unique place in my life between the 1960s and 1980s. Some personal memories…

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