Welcome back to our best bits from 2025. On this episode, we've got some absolutely fabulous highlights for you.

We'll be hearing from Susie Ruffle, Nargomanchetti, Adam Buxton, Jedwood and Sam Ryder.

We really have been spoiled all year, Ray. Well, you certainly have, that's for sure. Let's get into it with the

ridiculously lovely Sam Ryder. So it's really interesting. You've talked about how, you know,

you did a bit of carpentry with your dad, and you were always, though, pretty determined to sing.

And you were in various bands, some of which took you to Canada and America.

And this was as a young man, was it?

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And then you ended up...

And I kind of love this, Sam, because you ended up doing the sort of pub circuit and weddings

and all this kind of stuff.

Mm-hmm.

Still doing the carpentry and stuff like that on the side, were you?

Or were you running?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I kept on, that was the amazing thing about working my dad.

I could, like, and I was in a real privileged position here because he, it wasn't easy.

Let me tell you, because my dad wasn't just kind of like, yeah, go whenever you can and come back whenever you want.

It wasn't that because he needed help and he needed some kind of level of consistency but to a degree

it was definitely easier i can't deny than working for like an anonymous boss who just will just

look at your holiday days and be like well no you've got none left because that's end of conversation

you know my dad knew that i had this goal and ambition um, to like forge a career for myself out of music.

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