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Hello everybody, Sarah Smith here.

I'm in the BBC Bureau in New York.

And it's Anthony Zerker.

I'm here in the Washington DC Bureau.

So I haven't been on American answers

for a few weeks, Anthony, between other commitments

and actually not being very well last week.

And I have heard that there have been some changes, but the producers wouldn't tell me how it's changed

because apparently it's going to be a wonderful surprise.

They're big changes and it will be a surprise.

I'll reserve judgment for you on whether it's wonderful or not.

But this is going to be a new format for us where we haven't seen any of the questions, we haven't

seen the script, we haven't seen any information about what we're going to be talking about on this episode

until right now when my producer Claire is handing me the script. I am turning it over.

I assume you have someone there as well, providing you with a script and now we get to see

what we're going to be quizzed on and we're going to have to rely on our breadth and depth of knowledge

in order to answer these viewer and listener questions.

I mean I suppose it is exam season the students everywhere sitting their finals so

it's only fair that we get tested as well but I have to warn you on air quizzes

I'm not good at I mean so not good at my husband has actually made

me promise not to do any of them ever again to save embarrassing him you might

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