And the I'm going to do. So, Welcome back to yet another sparkling edition of the two mics on the record podcast mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr mr m mr m mr m m m m m m because we haven't done it for a while yeah I prefer to call it the

porky review of books and you know why I like to call it that because that is the term

that links it more closely with the New York Times yes which is has of course the

New York Times review of books.

Yes, I'm right, yes, and we are of that level.

We certainly are.

Yeah.

Now, I'm going to get bit serious for a once, okay, on this podcast, but there's a book which has come out and I've I've already

read bits of it you know book was sent to me and it's written by a woman who fell off a

horse her name is Melanie Reed. Melanie Reed I know Melanie Reed

she's Scottish she's Scottish she's Scottish she's got it she used to write I think I'm

writing saying for the Herald in Scotland yes and then I think she went to the

times yes and now right Herald in I think she went to the Times yes

She now writes for the Times.

I was gonna say yeah she writes the Times

a column in the Sunday Times Color magazine on sorry in the Times Saturday color magazine

Yeah called Spinal column yes and she writes another column about general bits and pieces or you know general like columnist column

on a Tuesday Wednesday or

Thursday or something in the Times on their op-page,

you know?

It's a very tragic story, her story, but she's been very brave

and continued to write and make her living as a journalist despite the fact that she's now I think

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