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Ah! Hello and welcome to I am the Egg Pots with me Chris Shaw.

The Egg Pots take a jaunty stroll through Peppeland discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums

with a popery of delicious guests.

In this episode, it's a delight to welcome back, broadcaster, journalist, writer, podcaster,

and honorary fellow at Oxford University, Dr. Samira Albiz.

I'm actually two honorary doctors.

Like, yeah, I'm just like that guy in the Ruttles was two hairdressers.

And I have an honorary doctorate from City University as well.

And in the taxi home afterwards, I was with my mum.

And she said, can I say you're a doctor now, being an Asian mother?

And I said, no. And I said, and I say you're a doctor now, being an Asian mother? And I said, no.

And I said, and I actually said this.

I said, Mum, you know, it's like Paul McCartney.

You know, he's there, Paul McCartney, and I'm sure he's got honorary doctorates of music and all kinds of things.

But he's not a real doctor of music or a real professor.

Yeah. And your podcast, you'd started, because it was about, we were saying it's about Christmas last year, wasn't it, we did the last one.

Yeah, yeah, so it's called How I Found My Voice and it's with Intelligence Squared.

And the producer is a brilliant young woman called Farah Jessett, who was a BBC production trainee.

And, yeah, the idea is you find out how did people become who they are.

So it seems like, you know, did you keep a diary?

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