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QAH Episode 63: Mark Thatcher and the Paris-Dakar Rally
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Quarter-Arsed History presents: the time Mark Thatcher, the son of a sitting UK prime minister, decided he wanted to be a racecar driver and got stranded in the middle of the Sahara Desert.
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