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Welcome to For the Many Live.

Please give a warm welcome to your presenters, Jackie Smith and Ian Dale.

He's got to get his crutches up the stairs.

No, my microphone's fallen off.

Anyway, very warm welcome to today's four the many, which in a minute I will be joined by Ian Dale to,

here he comes. He's just building up the

suspense for you about his appearance hello and it's still falling off good

Adrian come and put it back on please. Good.

So welcome to today's For the Many.

This is the fourth of our five For the Many live shows that we've been doing at Edinburgh.

And we'll introduce today's guest in a moment.

But the last one tomorrow will be joined by Jeff Norcott and by Rosie Holt.

And whilst we've been in Edinburgh,

Ian's obviously been doing other shows as well in his All-Talk series.

So yesterday afternoon, both of us interviewed Kirstama, for example, as part of

all talk and Ian's got various other people he's talking to. But we've also seen a few shows,

haven't we, Ian, including Rosie. Yeah, we saw Rosie Holt was a Tuesday or Wednesday, and her show

is completely sold out. I didn't know Rosie Holt much before Edinburgh, but I mean she is just amazing.

And if you've got a chance to come tomorrow, please do get a ticket for that.

Because she is absolutely super, and very funny.

She's made her name, I suppose, on Twitter doing this Tory MP.

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