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Hello, welcome to a good read where my guests today are the writer, broadcaster and performer, Ian Marchant,

and the actor Larry Lamb. Larry's probably best known for playing two very different fathers,

the lying manipulative Archie Mitchell in EastEnders, a performance that won him best villain

at the 2010 British Soap Awards and the down-to-earth Mick Shipman in the BBC 3 hit comedy Gavin and Stacey.

Other recent roles include General McKee in the movie Blood the Last Vampire and on stage,

Captain Hook in Peter Pan, another iconic villain, and Frank in Educating Rita.

Last year, Larry published the candid autobiography, Mummy's Boy. Larry, good to have you on the program.

Lovely to be here. Thank you. And good to have you here, too, Ian Marchant. It's lovely to be here too.

Ian's writing includes plays, novels and three travel memoirs, parallel lines, the longest crawl and something of the night, the last of which was published in January this year.

His next book, A Personal History of the British Counterculture, is due out in 2013.

Ian has broadcast for Radio 4, Radio 3 and ITV, and performs with, I quote,

the almost semi-legendary musical comedy act,

Your Dad, and the Festival Cabaret crew, The Village Hall.

He teaches creative writing at Birmingham City University.

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