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That was scary.

Those people who are listening to this subsequently in a recording,

Ian just got enormously close to the edge of the stage.

But did you see all this fuss about Stephen Fry falling off a stage at the O2 this week?

I mean, for God's sake, it was only six feet.

I did 12 feet.

You're all right here. You've only got about three. How long does everybody think this is?

I'm not very good at judging length. Here all the bloke's going.

Yes. I do apologise for the fact that we are muffless today

we have no muffs on our microphone

I'm just trying to

I was a bit disconcerted by not

having a muff so I'm just

altering it until

probably just as well

now welcome to

Balmuth ladies and gentlemen

shout if you are here for the Lib Dem

Conference and shout if you're not.

Sorry, Leila. Now, how this is going to work. First of all, can we thank the organizers, the venue for putting this on, as you saw outside, it's called Canvas.

But apparently, Jackie was most interested in this, it used to be a nightclub called Bumbles.

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