Today I made my writing debut in The Daily Telegraph, thanks to a commission that came through yesterday afternoon at 2pm from a man I used to do a bit of work for at British Airways' in-flight magazine High Life (which just goes to show how the media works: one chunk leads to another chunk, as long as you deliver clean copy, on time, to length and with a cheery smile, which I have always been at pains to do). It was quite a buzz: I had two hours to write a 1,200 word "think piece" on DCI Gene Hunt and how he will cope with the early 80s in the forthcoming Life On Mars sequel Ashes To Ashes, which I can't wait to see. There are a couple of on-set pics on Philip Glenister's own website. Anyway, it's good to write something so fast and see it on the newsstands the next morning.

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