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Namesakes:
A Very British Odyssey (2004)
Nick Angel discovered a Jackie
Collins novel with a hero called … Nick Angel.
It got him wondering about all
the other people with the same name as someone who’s famous, and he
began to hunt them down.
Donald Duck is a retired
missionary and GP in Scotland who was born before the cartoon character
was created; Florence Nightingale married into the name and now feels
that she wants to help people; Winston Churchill works in a leisure
centre in Swindon; Michael Barrymore is a medium who performs in
theatres; Genghis Khan is a pacifist living in Birmingham and Maxine
Carr is a nurse in Nottingham desperate to get rid of her name – but
how desperate?
Nick travels all over the
country visiting these namesakes and discovers that the name you bear
can have quite a profound effect on who you feel yourself to be.
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