"She cycled off to Oxford railway station with all her kit — beige full-skirted lace over taffeta dress, beige kid court shoes and gloves — in her bicycle basket [...] She was back that night, very offhand about the whole thing."
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Gillian Reynolds
Gillian Reynolds CBE (née Morton; born 15 November 1935) is an English radio critic and journalist. After writing for The Guardian from 1967 to 1974, she was the radio critic for The Daily Telegraph for over 40 years, from 1975 to 2018. She then continued her career at The Sunday Times, where she wrote about radio until 2021.
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