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W. Empire pod UK.com. Hello and me, welcome to Empire with me Anita Arnan and me William Durham pool.

I'd like to just say straight up that I've had some of the most wonderful weeks of reading

preparing for this reading Simon Seabag Montefiore's fantastic books, the Ramanov's and

Catherine Potemphin.

It's always one of the great pleasures of doing this part that you get to read the wonderful

books on the subject you're doing.

But I've been on holiday in Scotland in the last two weeks and

sitting in sort of forests that I've been imagining not dissimilar to the to the birch

forests of the step and pretty chilly too up here at the moment.

I can absolutely back this up because you've

been sending me regular quotes saying oh he writes this really well oh God this

this is brilliant loop turned a page this one I've been knocked out it's one of those It's one of those things. As I said at the beginning of our first episode we see back, I was at college with him and you can never really, you know, profit is never regarded in his own home but reading this for

though I have had such an education in Russian history and I would recommend to

anyone thank you for blowing our special guest introduction no that was good

I mean it's unlike you to completely.

As you know, I like to keep, I like to keep my secrets close.

Hello, Seabag.

Thank you, thank you.

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