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GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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NORTH Londoner Binker Golding’s early love for music had a somewhat serendipitous beginning. “I was initially interested in playing guitar but it was forbidden by my parents because of its association with rock music which I was, and am, heavily into,” the north Londoner tells me.
“At the local music school they only had space for a saxophone or violin student. So I chose saxophone out of a process of elimination.”
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