Hello and welcome to the Great Endures. The podcast which reveals everything you ever needed to know about interiors and explains how to make it all really work for you in your home.

I'm Sophie Robinson and I'm Kate Watson Smyth and this is our staying in special

So look with everything which is going on right now. We have been feeling pretty bleak as I'm sure you have too and we weren't at all sure

that anyone needed to be hearing a podcast about interior design right now.

But then I got this message through my Instagram.

It's from Hannah Robinson, no relation.

And she says,

Hi Sophie, I work for London Ambulance Service

in the control room and have been struggling to switch off.

Just wanted to say a huge thank you.

Listening to the Great Endores is keeping me sane and giving me some calm. Well you can imagine how that made us feel and there have been so many other messages coming in along similar lines which has just been amazing and also made me feel a bit awkward because well that's what I'm like and then

Ollie got in touch. Hi Kate and Sophie I'm only from Manchester and I'm a big

fan of the podcast like lots of people across the country, I'm now working, living, sleeping,

cooking and everything else in the same relatively small flat. I was wondering whether you

might produce a special episode on how to keep a home fresh throughout this time,

how to deal with switching your house from home to office and back again over the course of the day,

and how we might be up to make our homes feel a little bit different at the weekend.

Something like this could really help us all keep sane while this is all going on.

The Great Endures has never been more important. Well, Ollie, when you put it like that, how could we refuse?

So in this special episode, we'll be answering your design dilemmas and discussing ideas for keeping

sane and staying calm when you're stuck indoors during these extremely

strange times. On top of that we've got a few ideas from some of the lovely guests who we've had in the show before.

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