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- He was knighted in 1990.

- Is a vegetarian.

- Apparently, one of the last things Margaret Thatcher did as Prime Minister was to recommend him for a knighthood.

- In 1988, Ian publicly came out of the closet on Radio 4, while discussing Margaret Thatcher's "section 28" legislation which would make the "public promotion of homosexuality" a crime.
 

 

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