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Hello and welcome to the Thuru household during lockdown.

Against a soundtrack of children running wild

and parents taking turns to squeeze in work

while the other tries to rein them in.

And my work during these strange times is this,

grounded with Louis Thuru, a podcast series for BBC Radio 4

in which I talk to people similarly locked down

who have been keen to meet.

Only now we meet remotely,

using video conferencing software

and getting our guests to record their half of the conversation.

I'm doing some recording as well.

One, two, one, two.

How does it sound to you?

That's Lenny Henry, my guest for today.

Someone I grew up watching on TV

and who way back I tried to get to appear in one of my documentaries.

But perhaps quite rightly he turned me down.

Not this time though, with nowhere else to go

he set his device to record and we began.

OK, well let's rock.

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