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(205) Listening to Peter Rhodes

On the morning of March 6th, 2004, I gave a chess lesson to Peter Rhodes, of London, by Internet. This was only the second such lesson that I had given him, the first being on March 3rd. I even asked him about his name, jokingly, and whether it stemmed from the guy who founded Rhodesia. I had had a question about who was the founder of Rhodesia on March 3rd, 2004, in a pub quiz. Unusually, I had used the Skype technology to talk to Mr Rhodes through the computer, although neither of us was able  to actually see the other. On the evening of March 6th, I looked at medium Craig Hamilton-Parker’s website and saw some audio clips on coincidences. http://www.psychics.co.uk/coincidences/ I played one and found that it begins with a joke told by a journalist called Peter Rhodes. I had heard the radio show of which it was part - one of a series on coincidence by Martin Plimmer - a few years earlier, although, naturally, I had quite forgotten the name of the journalist who tells the joke. It was