It's 27 years since Roddy Doyle's Jimmy Rabbitte started trying to import soul to Dublin. Doyle joins us to update us on his hapless hero, now aged 47 and suffering from bowel cancer. If Jimmy's stock in trade is the single evasive word - "grand" - Mark Forsyth's is all the words he might have used were he to have had had access to some of the world's smaller dictionaries.
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