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Welcome to For the Many Live.

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

Hello.

We can see people. I think you need to have the lights down a bit more. It's really weird, isn isn't it, Jackie? There we go. Some places you can actually see the whole audience and other places you just see people in the front row. But the nice thing, given that this is our last for the many, is that there's a reasonable bunch of people. Well, you say our last for the many, here is that last one. It's our last four the many live.

Have you enjoyed it?

I feel positively a bit choked up, but this is the end.

Yeah, it's been great.

It's been really good fun.

I wasn't quite sure, because we've done one for the many live haven't we on the magic mic stage yes yes anybody there

oh oh that good and what's been your highlight and low light of this week well

no you are you asking me to say who I didn't like as much as other people? No, I didn't mean the guess. I just meant the general experience of Edinburgh. It's good fun to be in Edinburgh and actually to be... And it not be raining. Well, it's been a bit blooming hot, but not as hot as it's been down south.

It's quite nice.

When people say, oh, what are you here for?

And you say, the fringe, and they say, oh, what shows have you seen?

And you say, oh, actually, I'm in one.

That makes you feel a bit sort of, oh.

We've had a few mixed culinary experiences in Edinburgh, haven't we?

We went out to dinner on Tuesday at the Hotel Duvain, which when I was here three years ago was the place to go.

And we got there, we're sitting down, I said, can we have some bread please?

I haven't got any.

I'm thinking a restaurant that hasn't got any bread and then four of the

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