Hello and welcome to the Saturday edition of The For The Many podcast. I'm Ian Dale.

And no, Jackie Smith isn't here today. She's on her holidays, although the sound that you can hear is probably that screeching U-turn on the French motorway, where she was trying to get back to avoid quarantine, but I suspect she didn't make it.

So she's in Tuscany for the next 10 days or so.

So for the next three weeks, we have three different co-presenters with me.

Next Wednesday, West Street, the Labour MP, he'll be joining me.

And then next Saturday, Caroline Flint.

But I'm delighted to say that we have Denise Headley with us today.

Denise, hi.

Hi, Ian.

And thank you so much for giving me the chance to sit with you on the For the Medi podcast.

That's perfectly okay. It's going to be

very interesting to see the different tone that you have from Miss Smith. I suspect your mouth

is rather less potty than hers. I do. I will try to maintain a level and a wonderful standard

for the listener. You really don't need to. Okay.

So for those of those people listening who haven't heard you on my show on LBC, just give a little bit of background to yourself.

Who are you?

Well, I am Denise Headley. I am.

Yeah, we got that.

Okay, so I'm, I've got one sister, and both of my parents are from Guyana, which is in the Caribbean,

basically in South America.

I spent most of my formidable years in...

What should I say, my formative years, London.

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