“Has light entertainment been a trap?” Eamonn Dunphy asked his radio guest last Saturday morning. He was fishing for regrets, and he caught a big juicy one:

“I really regret not being a very fine surgeon,” she answered. “I would love to have done neurosurgery.”

Ah Jays, I thought, wouldn’t we all. Who hasn’t reached middle age and not stopped to assess the journey.

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