Plan B: 'Strickland Banks may be soul, but it's still real life'

As his smooth soul-singer alter ego Strickland Banks, rapper Plan B seems miles removed from his gritty London roots. Not so, he saysThe international lingua franca of Christmas TV is fromage. France's leading commercial channel, TF1, doesn't skimp on the cheese course, as Ben Drew is about to discover. He has arrived in Paris on a lunchtime train from Brussels, where he played the previous night, for an appearance on the peculiarly Gallic festive special that is Les 500 Choristes Fêtent Noël....

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