Hello and welcome to another episode of something rhymes with purple. Now this is a podcast

for about words and language and traditionally I would be sitting while I am sitting still

in my little cubby hole in Oxford and Charles would be in his dungeon or his basement in London

and we'll be talking to each other on Zoom and it's a tiny bit different day trials because

I can pretty much just see your nose and you don't look to be at home. Where on earth are you?

I tell you what I am. I've tried to move the camera a bit away so you can see what I am. I'm in a

London black cab taxi. This was my first mistake except she's a very nice drug but I should have either

walked or found a tube station and then taken a bus to get back to my home in my basement studio

but I've had rather a long day and I've got two suitcases with because last night I was doing my show

Charles Brown with Can't Stop Talking in a Yovil which is in Somerset and to get from Yovil to

London I had to take quite a slow train this morning from Yovil about all sorts of beautiful places

including Salisbury to get to London. I then had to go to I won't give you too much detail

a variety of bookshops to sign copies of my new book a little with an internet portrait and

added match excitement particularly at hat charts but I signed the books on a table where Oscar

Wilde in the 1880s signed copies of his books pretty exciting. Oh that is exciting.

Then I watched the Grovenhouse Hotel what I met up with Rory Stewart to know I mean by Rory

Stewart. Oh I'm a huge fan of Rory Stewart. I have to say I wish he had become the leader

and he does as well. He talked a lot of sense yeah. He would like to have become

Prime Minister. I think he still has ambitions. Anyway he's a very interesting and amusing person

but he's so knowledgeable. He's very knowledgeable. Very knowledgeable and we had a fun time together

and then I said I must go now because my friend Susie Dent is waiting for me and he said oh you

know Susie? Yes I know Susie. If you knew Susie like I knew Susie. Yes he will never have heard of me.

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