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Row it again, chaps.(Television Program Review)

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20060104
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Byline: CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW

Three Men In A Boat (BBC2); Sweeney Todd (BBC1).

BEFORE I say another word about the antics of Griff Rhys Jones, Rory McGrath and Dara O'Briain when they reproduced the famous journey up the Thames in 1889 immortalised by Jerome K. Jerome in Three Men In A Boat, I had better declare an interest.

In the summer of 1982, I undertook the same journey from Kingston to Oxford in an identical camping skiff with my old friends Tim Rice and the late, much lamented Benny Green.

Our reason for doing so was because I happened to mention to the ...

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