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So, Ian, are you any good at Oral?

Oh no, sorry.

I meant Oracy. I was very good at Oral? Oh no, sorry, I meant Oracy.

I was very good at Oral German.

Were you?

Yes.

I've never heard of this word oracy until yesterday.

Where did it come from?

I do think it is a proper word that properly educated people might use for talking and shit.

But as you can see, I was educated in the Thatcher years and therefore...

No, you weren't. You were educated in Callahan years at school. Oh yeah, you weren't. You were educated in a Callahan years at school. Oh, yeah, you're right.

The Shirley Williams's comprehensiveisation program. Well, Shirley Williams and Margaret

Thatcher's comprehensiveisation program. Well, up to a point of book, yes, you are writing that.

Thank you, yes.

Shall we tell the dear listener what we've been doing for the last 41 minutes?

Is it that long?

That's the amount of time we've taken to try and get this recording up and running.

And we normally record on something called Clean Feed,

but Jackie didn't sound her normal self on it,

so she's been fiddling with her holes,

plugging things in and out.

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