Morning! Well, that was a bit flat, wasn't it?

Morning! Not what anybody wants to wake up to.

I'm talking to you like it, you're listening in the morning. Well, it's morning for me,

that's all I can tell you. I've woken up, um, so far so good.

With a spring in my step, and I'm actually just still slightly setting up my bits and

bobs for this here podcast recording, um, because I've got to plug in,

if you heard that noise, I've got to plug in my zoom recorder,

because we can't have another Russell T. Davies situation, can we remember when the recorder broke

during the interview? Uh, sometime ago, that was one for the, for the diehard fans.

Now, I'm plugging it in, I'm trying to plug it in, but of course, because the rules of physics

and space want to deny me, where I'm plugging, the plug doesn't fit.

This is an interesting conundrum. Let's have a look under the chair.

This is why you listen to podcasts, isn't it? Listen, I'm trying to hear podcast hosts,

trying to work out how to plug in their recorder, not for the centrelating interviews,

for the incisive questions. Beautiful portraits of lives well lived.

It's the tech, it's the plumbing.

Um, okay, there's a cupboard, there's a plug. How are you all listeners?

I've woken up, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, I'm transmitting to you from my morning.

I've poured a coffee, the eagle-eyed among you will probably notice I've had some already,

given my chatty nature. And I'm very excited about today's episode.

We've got Rochine Murphy on the show. Rochine is a super duper singer-songwriter.

She started out in Maloko, and they did that song The Time Is Now, which had the most amazing

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