Upgrading the lottery City Profile The lottery is being relaunched tomorrow. Michael Grade says a Europe-wide draw would be great, so long as 'Johnny Foreigner' didn't win

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: April 28, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Interviewing Michael Grade, the scion of Britain's biggest entertainment dynasty, is supposed to be like sitting mesmerised in the front row of a cacophonous West End show. All lights, action, music, big cigars, big braces, big red socks, big stories, long jokes - a riveting, unstoppable, breathless theatrical masterpiece from start to finish.

Except that it's not. At all. Nope. Not a jot. Maybe he's having an off day. Maybe I'm having an off day. I don't know. He's just not - what? Just not the Michael Grade I had imagined. He's just not as big, not as loud, not as brilliant. He's just not ...

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