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Hello and welcome to the show, I'm Stuart Goldsmith and in this episode I'm talking to Tom Ballard plucky young

comedy vunderkind Australian guy we met in in Melweed Met it met it all over the place

but we recorded this conversation without an audience

around Tom's house in Melbourne and it is very much a comedy house as you will hear.

Tom is going to be at the Edinburgh Festival this year so if you're going to be there

I would highly recommend his show he's reprising the show that I saw earlier this year in

Melbourne and it is an excellent piece of work he is as you will hear he's just one of those kind of young fated we talk about this is quite interesting

He's he's someone who just started winning things early doors and and kind of went through I think probably

quite a precocious period of of everything falling at his feet and now it's I mean

I'd love to tell you you've all gone horribly wrong for him, but no,

he's continuing to do excellent stuff.

So I hope you enjoy this episode with Tom Ballard.

Your show was absolutely superb.

Thank you, Steve.

That's very nice of you.

I didn't see the very end of it.

I have just read the end of it in the script that you have left ostentatiously

lying around your room. I didn't mean to. Listeners, I did not leave my script lying around my bedroom for Stuart Goldsmith to discover and ask me questions about it.

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