You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now, the history podcast that's not your

history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot, and Reader of Books.

Yes, my voice is still gone quite a bit. It hasn't quite returned back after seeing Esme last week. So we went for dinner after the book launch when we did a

little in conversation with myself and Esme and Dr. Susan James.

And we did a really good chat.

It was really fun.

It was wonderful for everybody who showed up.

And everyone who did show up and photos and hugs and everything, you're amazing.

And shout out to my friend Mark, who buckled my shoes for me.

For those of you who don't know, I've got scoliosis and my back spasms quite a lot.

So I have trouble sometimes, like, bending and doing certain movements.

But Mark sorted my shoes for me so that I could match Esme's book.

So I had a little blue outfit with pink shoes that match the color of her

international book cover. But yeah, that was that was that. So we were out and we were having

dinner and then it got really loud and I basically talked too much. As Dr. Susan James said,

I'm the only person she's met that can talk more than

Esme, which I feel is a sense of achievement, actually. But yeah, I talk to myself hoarse, but I'm

finally like up to par where a point I can physically record again instead of making some weird

husky noises, which I'm sure some of you would be into, but I feel is not entirely conclusive

to a history podcast. But I'm really excited because my analytics started working again and I

charted in Peru. Peru. Who was listening to me in Peru? Paddington Bayer? What is this? In Panama?

Like, I'm getting all the peas. This is fabulous. I love that people are listening to me. This is amazing.

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