Katie Bolter.

Oh wow.

Tennis is full of noise.

Pressure.

Manifest.

Intensity.

But what really makes me feel alive?

It's the focus in that quiet.

A moment to breathe.

To reset.

To hydrate.

That's what really makes me feel alive.

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local store. It is three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

Listen, I do set the bar quite high some days. Let's not, let's not be the bow of the bush this morning. I'm not sure I've ever said it any higher than this. And when I, sometimes I'm being a little bit, facetious is a bit unkind, but I'm being a little bit, dare I say performative when I talk about how high the bar is set. I'm almost daring you not to ring in. I say, well, we're doing a really tough thing today. I wonder how many people are going to be qualified to talk about this. And then usually the phones ring off the hook anyway, and we all pat each other on the back for being brilliant, and then trebles all round, and we all go home. I mean, I am somewhat embarrassed, to the point almost of humiliation by how little I know about this period of British history.

How many people knew, for example, that there were essentially three civil wars in this country,

culminating in the execution of Charles I, of course, but actually not culminating in the execution of Charles I was, because they were still squabbling after that.

You think that there was this little period between what you'd call the end of the civil war and the return of Charles II to power.

But, I mean, even that is too simplistic because Cromwell didn't become the Lord

Protector until quite long after Charles I first had his head chopped off in 1649.

A year later, Charles II was crowned king of Scotland.

Did you know that?

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