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The audiotape of Alan Clark's Diaries - barely mentioned in this rather Dr Watsonish, sensible shoe of a biography - is well worth hearing.

Alan Clark narrates them himself, in a wonderfully high camp, pantomime manner, reminiscent of Kenneth Williams reading the Just William stories.

It's a rib-tickling comic turn, and adds a new dimension to the original book, an additional mirror reflecting on the first mirror at a jaunty angle. Clark's semi-parodic tone acts as a sort of wry critique on the diaries, which are themselves, of course, a wry critique on his life. Observing himself observing himself, Clark uses every inflection of his voice to bring out the humorous and the grotesque, the essential absurdity and self-delusion of Clark the anti-hero.

What is the effect of a diary on its author?

Inevitably, it gives a staged quality to the life. In her biography of Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin suggests that his diary allowed Pepys to divide himself in two - to become, as it were, both the actor and his audience, both the man of the world and the dispassionate observer of that man of the world. As a man, Pepys could be vain, randy, ambitious and deceitful (much like another parliamentarian 300-odd years later), but as the observer of that same man he was able to hover, eagle-eyed, overhead, recording, however unfavourably, his own ways.

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Alas for Dominic Lawson, posterity forgives such bad behaviour, and even relishes it, just so long as its perpetrator keeps it going long enough and then makes his confession sufficiently lively.

How many robust, well-argued speeches in the House of Commons on matters of great importance, delivered down the centuries by intelligent and passionate MPs, are now forgotten? Yet Alan Clark's tipsy ('We "tasted" first a bottle of '61 Palmer, then "for comparison" a bottle of '75 Palmer then, switching back to '61, a really delicious Pichon Longueville') rendering ('at 78 rpm instead of 33') of the Equal Opportunities Order in July, 1983 will be long remembered, just as Gussie Fink-Nottle's speech to Market Snodsbury Grammar School is remembered, and for much the same reason.

Unfair it may be, but, in the words of the song, when it comes to the diarist, 'it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it - that's what gets results.'

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NO sooner have we packed away our ballroom shoes than it's time to dig out the ice-skates.

And I'm not talking about a method of getting to work in the current icy conditions. Prior to the start of the new series on Sunday, when the likes of Heather Mills and Gordon Ramsay's betterhalf Tana take to the ice to do battle, there's a special launch show hosted by Mr and Mrs This Morning, Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby.

Last year's DOI champion Ray Quinn will don the spangles once more for a duet with his ice wife Maria Filippov.

The professional skating partners will perform a "daredevil display", whatever that means. Skaters skydiving from the rafters, perhaps?

We'll also meet the latest addition to the judging panel, Emma Bunton, and the 14 new celebrity skaters.

While the stars aren't all household names, the line-up isn't as bad as Strictly, where the recent series saw many of the professional dancers more famous than the so-called celebs they were partnered with.

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Britney Spears' and Lindsay Lohan's mothers appear to be prime examples. Mitch Winehouse may be turning into another...

He questions his own motives for making this documentary about how his daughter Amy's drug addiction has affected his life. But not enough to actually stop the cameras from filming.

The show, which includes footage of Mitch joining Amy in St Lucia where she spent nine months fighting her addictions, is an interesting insight into life with a child with a drug habit.

It's also a good guide to what not to wear in front of the cameras (Amy's mum - pull your straps up) and shows that even if you fork out for a Harley Street therapist, you could still end up with one that has a footballer-style habit of saying "you know" a lot.

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CATS are supposed to have nine lives and if that really is the case, time could be running out for the smuggest man on the telly - because Jimmy Carr's comedy panel show is nine series' old today.

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"I've still got three pairs in their boxes, unused, but I'm going to get more when I come back. You can't get them anywhere else in the world and they're my favourite ever boots.

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"I was in a John and Yoko movie when I was a kid. It was called Up Your Legs Forever, and was basically a film of people's shoes and legs. It was an art thing, I didn't know what was going on. But I was 15 and they paid me a dollar, so I was happy. "Years later, in 1974 I came to know John. He came in while I was recording with the New York Dolls.

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The original band recorded two seminal albums - the eponymous debut New York Dolls (1973) and Too Much Too Soon (1974), before calling it a day in 1977.

The surviving members reformed the group in 2004 to much acclaim, but soon lost bassist Arthur Kane to leukaemia.

In 2006, Johansen and Sylvain reunited again and recorded the NY Dolls' third studio album, One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This, which featured the single Dance Like A Monkey.

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