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Ian Love, calm down. Why are you so flustered?

Honestly, this radio lark, we arranged to do a pre-record with Lucy Powell at quarter past four. It is now 10 to 5, by the way, for everyone that is interested in these things.

This is much more exciting, you know, than a traffic anecdote.

But I suspect we'll have one of those as well. But anyway, carry on. Anyway, 429. Here I'm sitting like

a lemon thinking, well, where is she? And you were due with me at 4.30, wasn't you? Yeah, exactly. And Chris,

my producer, said, oh, she's been delayed by doing an interview with Nadine Doris for Talk TV.

Right.

And I said, well, when was that supposed to finish?

He said, quarter to four.

What, 45 minutes earlier?

Yeah.

She spent 45 minutes doing an interview with Nadine Doris for Talk TV.

Well, I think they had to keep starting again.

Not through Lucy's fault. I'm saying no more. I'm saying no more. You little, you little monkey.

So Nadine, if you're listening, it's not really the right etiquette to keep other interviews waiting.

So I'm less than gruntled. I think Lucy, who I'm sure it wasn't

Lucy's fault, I think Lucy should have just like got up and stormed out. What you mean like I do?

Said, come on love. If you can't get it, if you can't't sort it out I'm going to the proper professional Ian Dale

quite so I did say to Lucy before we started I said Lucy it's really good to get the interview in a really bad mood just before you start an interview

it's not my fault I said I know it's not your fault so anyway was this was this about the mission? This was about the mission, which we

will be coming to very, very shortly, won't we? Because we've got, there's a lot of news being

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