A quiet night in with my cashmere socks on, a filthy bar of Turkish delight, and the greatest hits of Alanis Morissette.

There are a million things I'm thankful for today, but what is my guest thankful for?

And the one thing I'll say about my mother, which I love, she loves so openly, to the point where she's loved nearly all of my ex-boyfriends

more than maybe even me. And so when like there's a breakup, she's like, what did you do?

Welcome to Thanks a Million. The voice you're hearing in your earholes is mine, Angela Scanlan.

And this is the show that takes a sneak peek at my guest's gratitude list

to find out the people, places and things that have shaped their lives. And today it is this

fabulous woman. Hello, I am Ashling B, today's entertaining guest here to tickle your earbuds with my dulcet tones.

Do you know, I remember, did you ever do this?

When I was a kid, I had radio shows.

And I remember you to do all the voices and like take the adverts like,

mm, magnum, why don't you have one?

Hello, welcome back to the radio show. And I'd I do all the adverts of different voices. The full shebang. The full shebang. And but even down to like I do a clear cell advert. I do like a government health warning like, please pay your taxes. Ashton is a comedian and, an activist, writer and creator of the hit sitcom this

way up for Channel 4, which I'm sure you've seen by now, and a whole bunch of other very

funny stuff.

She's also spoken and written beautifully about coping with the loss of her father, which

you should hunt out for sure.

But stay with us right now because we have a lot of laughs

about the things Ashling B is thankful for and we've got to get going because Nish Kumar is due

round for a spot of lunch any minute now. Right, here we go. What's your relationship with

gratitude? I would be very thankful generally. Yeah, I'm very aware of how, of how lucky I am. I think it

falls into being Irish. We go around and go, no, thanks, thanks a million, thanks a million, and sorry, and

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