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Do you still have that thing where when the red light goes on in the studio, a little

bit of you free songs?

Yes, it is an increasingly tiny bit of me that does.

No, it does because you just become a much... I just become this exaggerated form of

myself, sounding, woo, and occasionally really quite positive and chirpy.

And it's nothing like the bloody truth.

As you know.

No, I'm pain in the ass, really grumpy.

Yes, no, well we know that.

But do you... That's quite a nice thing, though, isn't it?

Because then you can just think, oh, I go into this zone where I'm a nicer, shinier

version of myself.

I remember, actually, the great Tony Blackburn saying that he...

And I think, this is right, I'm going to be very careful here, that he felt more at home

in a radio studio than anywhere else.

Well, I think lots of people say that, especially the, yeah, so the rhinoceroses in our trade,

you know, exactly what I mean by that.

Yes.

They say that they do become the person that they are on air and then the real life becomes

a little bit hard.

Because it is that lovely thing, if you go into a slight kind of decompression chamber,

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