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Yeah. Hello and welcome to I'm The Egg Pots with me Chris Shaw.

The Egg Pots take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing

the Beatles and solo Beatle albums with the popery of delicious guests. In this episode, it's

welcome back to author and cultural historian John Higgs. Hi, Chris. Hello. Lovely to be back.

Hello. Not together this time, unfortunately. No, it was the other side of the pandemic. I saw you last.

It was. It was that long ago. Yeah. And I think you mentioned then about your book, William Blake versus the world, which is now out there.

Which is now out after all. Yeah. That was my real pandemic project. You know, how I

spent the lockdown was just going deep into the mind of William Blake and writing this book.

And it was not, it's not an easy book to write. William Blake's not an easy subject,

although you want it to be an easy read, obviously. And in those first months, when half your brain is trying to process what's going on in the

world and the other half is trying to get your work done and hit your word count, stuff like that,

I needed to bribe myself to get the work done, to force myself to hit my targets.

And that's why I bought this Beatles single box set.

Because I couldn't justify it normally.

It was a silly amount of money, but I wanted it so much.

And it was the only bribe I could think of that would force me to get my word count done

when my brain was all scrambled and confused.

So I owe it a lot.

We owe it the book in some ways.

Absolutely, yeah.

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