Hello and welcome to our second cautionary questions episode. I'm Tim Halford, you are our

loyal listeners, you have sent in your questions and we are going to try to provide some answers.

This episode I am delighted to be joined by composer, sound designer, representative of you,

our listeners, representative of the people, Pascal Wise, Pascal. Hello Tim. This is very

exciting isn't it? It's so exciting because you were with cautionary tales from the beginning.

Do you remember when we sat down in my producer, Ryan's apartment in his apartment?

And we talked about airships and what are airships going to sound like? What's the music going to sound

like? Yeah, and then I went off to record a hairdryer or something, whatever was required.

I feel like I've been like a kid who's been allowed onto the cockpit for this episode, although

having said that, that's a really bad sort of analogy. We have an episode. Yeah, and it didn't go

well at all, so you've set the bar low there, so that's good. So hopefully we're not going to crash in

this one.

On our last Q&A episode with Jacob Goldstein, we invited people to tell us what they thought of

cautionary conversations. So what about the episodes where we're not doing a fully mixed, fully

composed, narrated story, but we're doing something else, like having this kind of conversation or

talking to an author. And we got a lot of opinions, a lot of feedback. So Pascal, you've got some

of them in front of you. Yes. Now Tim, for this, I would like you, it's been a bit of an exercise

for you. I want you to imagine that there's a bowl of chocolates in front of us. Okay. Okay. You

got that in mind. I'm liking that already. I don't want to stress your your imaginative skills

because Ruth Ware. Alice, our producer is telling us it is it is the Ruth Ware, the novelist.

Okay, that had not hit my radar. Well, she sent a great email in with a little analogy for us.

I do enjoy the cautionary interviews, some more than others depending on the person you're speaking

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