Oliver, and you were on the front page of the Globe

there were a fair number of people

who if they had seen you that day would

recognize you but, it's not like

being a rock star, largely your

forgotten. In a way, there is something a

bit strange about the whole thing

because, you know, I'm the same person I

was the day before. Suddenly demand has

gone from zero to quite high. I've never

actually been able to bring myself to

tell a fully booked restaurant [laughing]

that maybe they want to

give me a seat.

My work has been particularly about how

in a situation where you can't specify

everything, it's important,

who has the right to decide on the

things which are left out. When you make

a discovery or you do a piece of work,

you might be very excited, but you don't

know that anybody else is going to take

it up.

Eric is an extraordinarily talented

person, he's a multi-talented person,

which I'm not.

He's a fantastic musician, because I've heard

him play, he's a great cook,

he's a formidable arguer, which I've

discovered to my cost, sometimes. And I'm

not like that [laughing]. The argument

part you are.

Yes, yes, I like to argue, but I knew

no economics and I was rather frustrated

when I had political arguments with

people. They sort of introduced some

economic idea and at that point, I lost the

argument that I had no idea what balance

of payments or something,

I just didn't know what it was. And so I

thought well you know, you can kill two

birds with one stone. In my day,

Perry Mason was a very popular TV show

and I thought being able to win all your

cases and get innocent people off was

a great line of work, so I was either

going to do that or play the

clarinet.