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2 unusual facts about Hugh McIlvanney


Flyingbolt

Jim Dreaper, Tom's son, was just a schoolboy at the time and he recounted his thoughts on both Arkle and Flyingbolt to Hugh McIlvanney 30 years later.

Tim Vickery

Vickery cites as his main influences the “old style” of Brian Glanville, whose “international consciousness” always appealed, as well as the “social consciousness” of The Sunday Times’ Hugh McIlvanney.



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