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and found me Rob Briden on my podcast. In this series of Briden and I talk to among

others Harry Hill, Ben Elton, Charlotte Church, Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter.

And that's just a few. We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer.

It's terrific conversation, reminiscent where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

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So our podcast this week was not actually initially planned as a podcast. Here's how it happened.

I was assigned by my overlords at nightline to do a story about a movie, a new movie called

The Rebel in the Rye, which is about the legendary author JD Salinger who of course wrote

Catcher in the Rye. And as I'm watching this movie to my great surprise and delight, I

learned something that I did not know about JD Salinger, which is that he's really into

meditation in yoga. In fact, it played a huge role in in his own mental health after

having served in World War II and in his creative life. So as I sat down to interview the

other day, the director of the movie Danny Strong and the star of the movie Nicholas Holt,

I also learned that they both do meditation and yoga. So even though the interview was the

audio is going to sound a little different because we did this as a television interview,

not a radio interview. So even though it wasn't planned as a podcast, we thought we'd play

the whole thing for you because while we talk a lot about the movie, we also talk a lot

about the role of meditation and yoga and their lives and in the life of JD Salinger, all

of which is going to be really interesting. Just a little background on these two guys.

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