Welcome to another episode of the Justice Politics with me, Alistair Campbell, and me

Rory Stewart.

And we are in the same room.

It's amazing.

I don't often get to see Alistair, I keep forgetting how big he is.

I just came into his dressing room, we're in the Royal Albert Hall, he's got shoes

about the size of a sofa I discovered.

And we're in the Royal Albert Hall because tonight we are performing here on the Day of

the Rail Strike.

And I've got to say Rory, it is a bit weird, let's just be honest, when we first started

this thing a few months ago, I don't think either of us thought that by what way we

December would be filling out the Albert Hall, it's a bit bonkers.

It's really bonkers, I don't really remember, but when you first approached me about it,

I think we were talking about doing a trial run of something like eight or nine episodes,

and we've now done who knows how many hours.

We actually got somebody who claimed that they'd listened to sort of a thousand hours,

didn't they?

I know they are, yeah, they've got to get out more, they said they'd listen to eleven days

worse.

But I can give a counterpoint to that.

You'll find now you're back in briefly in London, Rory, that as you walk around, you

will get people endlessly just saying, love you podcast, love you podcast, love you

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