The most vicious cat in London adored Richard E Grant. She adored no one else. Her name was Shiksa, she belonged to Chrissy, and she once worked a dinner table of Oscar winners dispensing pure contempt. Richard she loved on sight, and that was the test passed. Forty years after Withnail & I, he sits across the table with Chrissy. He now lives in what he cheerfully calls a commune, with his daughter, a two-week-old grandchild, and a blue-eyed ragdoll called Neo who comes when whistled and whom he calls his master. He keeps a two-foot sculpture of Barbra Streisand's head in his garden. He told her. She said he was crazy. An Oscar nominee, a devoted cat slave, and a raconteur who could charm the varnish off a door. New episodes wherever you listen. Roger's verdict: a natural. Shiksa had taste, and Roger trusts Shiksa.
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