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Welcome back dear lunches to the podcast that treats its guest to terrific food and its

listeners to terrific conversation. Today I'm drawn by a comedian, actor and musician

who stand up tours have had brilliantly invented titles including Tinsel Worm,

Petler and Limbo Land. His show is delight in the surreal and is mash-up of musical genres

and experimentation with the instruments when it's always a total joy. He implanted

himself deep in the public consciousness as manny in the much-loved TV comedy Black

Books and has appeared on numerous panel shows including as a team leader on Nevermind

the Buds Copts. He won strictly in 2020 and with that became a national treasure. The

observer has named it one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy and Channel 4 voted

in one of the greatest stand-up comics ever. We chat about what it's like having a zoo

in your back garden, what it's like working for Black Sadduff and what makes a fool-proof

Eurovision song contest winner. It is of course the utterly wondrous Bill Bailey.

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