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Lunch with Mark Colvin "The smooth radio voice disguises years of physical pain. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, lunch for (ABC presenter) Mark Colvin is a glass of lemonade in a Sydney hospital, chased down by a sandwich after five hours hooked up to a dialysis machine." — Sydney Morning Herald

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