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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me William Durable.

You leave this pregnant pause every week.

It makes me so nervous.

What do you do that?

When you suddenly turn the spotlight on me.

I can try the truck through that pause.

Yes, William is here.

I'm here.

And I think we just both of us want to start this podcast

with a huge amount of thanks to the enormous amount of

enthusiasm you've shown for this podcast. Willie we've been completely blown away

haven't we? Yeah I'm thrilled I didn't expect anything like this and I mean there's more response from this than

I've had for the TV documentaries I've done certainly more than you get from books which is a

lovely slow burner and you're still getting stuff 20 years later but

you certainly don't get sort of hundreds of tweets of appreciation so I'm thrilled.

I'm actually you are too.

Well I'm a little bit tickled.

It also puts us in a turf war with your friend Roy Stewart and Alistair Campbell.

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