Now, as you may know, the recording of the Wednesday podcast went a little awry. So I put it on my

SoundCloud and everyone that's listened to it has said, well, it's not really that bad.

So anyway, we thought we'd put it on the main podcast feed anyway.

So don't make any complaints about my rather muffled sound.

I forgot to put the microphone lead into my laptop before Jackie dialed me up.

And it sounded perfectly okay in my ears.

But as you were here, it actually went through the laptop microphone.

So it's not perfect, but enjoy anyway, if you can.

So, exactly. And so I face the final curtin.

Sorry, Jackie Smith, what is the end near?

I'm afraid, listeners, that the good news about us,

let's keep our fingers crossed, coming to the end of this pandemic, is that Ian Dale and I actually have to do a bit of bloody work in the middle of the week.

And therefore, I'm afraid we're going to be bringing to a conclusion our Wednesday podcast at Easter.

Sorry to break that sad news to everybody. I'm just imagining the shrieks of and horror and howls that are going on up and down the country at the moment.

I mean, obviously I would continue, but we're still going to have, I mean, people are still going to have our mammoth, marathon, monster Saturday podcasts to look forward to.

Yeah. I mean, look, we did say that when things got back to normal, we would probably have to bring the Wednesday podcast to an end.

And I'm afraid we have got to that point. I think for the last

two or three weeks we've struggled to find a slot in our busy job. I think we should start again,

right? I don't know what I'm doing now. We've got a bloody text message. I can start coughing.

Obviously it's the trauma of going through this announcement, I suppose. So apologies

to everyone who will miss us on a Wednesday. I mean, if there is a big news story, and we did do

this in the past, we sometimes did a sort of a second one if there was a need for it, but we

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