David Starkey is no longer quite as eager to show off his bitchy side, but he can be persuaded …
‘I don’t think I could have been Dr Fluffy,’ says David Starkey, poised behind a hake. ‘No. Absolutely not Dr Fluffy.’ He takes a sip of wine. He looks like an evil Professor Yaffle.

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