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Click to listen.  Mike Edwards interviews local businessman and self-made millionaire Max Smith, about how he started his career in the late 1960s, and how different it was to run a bed-and-breakfast 40 years ago.

He also tells how he was the first ever to get a licence for a pay-at-the-door nightclub on the Promenade!

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