BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

We're already live. This is beaming out to millions.

It isn't.

Hello, I'm Louis Thoreau and welcome to my podcast series for BBC Radio 4

grounded with Louis Thoreau.

Do you want me to do a quick hello and see if that provides a good answer and then see

for what's the use?

Where I get to talk to people I've always been keen to meet but never really had the chance to.

I can't hear anything now.

Only now I do it remotely, that is once we've got our video conferencing software sorted

and both of us, me and my guest, are recording our halves of the conversation.

It talks to me, you know what, I've actually made friends with every appliance.

Oh my god, that sounds really bad.

And my guest today is a TV presenter, mental health campaigner and darling of the 90s Lad Max.

He once had an image of her naked torso projected on the side of the houses of Parliament.

She is Gail Porter.

We recorded this conversation early in the lockdown.

What did you say, you were saying that you were making friends with your appliances, did you say?

Yeah, I'm figuring out how things work.

I've got a mixing desk that I have not used yet and I'm trying to figure out how to use that

to do a bit of radio recording and about myself a DJ set because I think if I'm going to be 50,

I need to do more and more embarrassing things from a 17-year-old daughter.

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