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Radio 4 to air Morecambe and Wise recordings found in garage

An unheard treasure trove of vintage recordings by comedy greats Morecambe and Wise is to be aired for the first time by Radio 4, it was announced today.

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Boy, Pamela Connolly was tough on Heather Mills in Shrink Rap. She must have been reeling by the time she left the studio. In an early body-blow, she'd been accused of "compulsive caretaking", a kind of neurotic desire to help others that had its roots in her own troubled childhood. Heather, pensive for a moment, conceded that there might be some truth to this: "I know people resent me when I start to give too much," she said, more in sorrow than in anger, "and think it's too good to be true." Not long after, she was brutally confronted with the fact that she is "highly intelligent, highly articulate" and not long after that Connolly was ruthlessly hammering away again at her culpable saintliness: "You know you inspire envy in people just by being who you are... over-giving." Other people's resentment against her, Connolly reassuringly explained, arises because Mills highlights their inadequacies, by her beauty and her ability to fix problems that they can't solve themselves: "Wow! Wow!" said Heather softly. It had never really occurred to her to see it that way before, what with being too busy with charity work and giving away the money she doesn't give a fig about, but now she came to think of it that was so true.