Iceland looms rather large in this week's podcast, not the shop, just back from five days of volcanoes geothermal energy that costs £60 a month for heating, hot water and electricity.

Wow. In companies that produce the energy that are owned by local councils, wow.

Going to an island that managed to save itself from an eruption in

1973, pretty much because the 4,000 people who lived there were one council that already

had authority to act on their own land and take the initiative, which they did really quickly,

and actually ended up steering the lava into a gap that improved the harbour wall.

It's a nation of quite astonishing superlatives is Iceland, so there's a lot of that.

We talk also about the more recent political developments in Britain,

also about the smart metre scandal that means 175,000 customers in Scotland need to have their meters updated by

March. It's taken years. It could have happened already. Or their heating could be stuck

permanently on or permanently off. And who seems to care? Those are the headlines. Now for the

podcast. Hi, Choms and welcome to this week's Leslie

Riddick podcast and Leslie's back free Iceland. And not the shop. Oh, oh, we're. Yes, sharp as

attack there. How was the trip?

Pretty epic.

I mean, I've gone to just, well, basically, I've been really fascinated by little islands called the Westman Islands that sit off the bottom of Iceland in the same relative position as Tasmania sits off the bottom of Australia.

And they are completely volcanic.

I mean, actually, Iceland has 33 volcanoes.

So, you know, they're not alone in that.

But I don't know if you're, well, you wouldn't remember because we're not quite old enough to remember the moment when it happened.

But an island called

Circe appeared out of the ocean in 1963, and it sits just off the Westman Islands. So it gives

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