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Hello loyal podulators, Tim Halford here with a bonus episode.

If you've listened to the final episode of the Autumn Radio 4 series of Morales, you'll

know that the 20th anniversary of the programme is fast approaching.

It's the 13th of November, in fact.

As promised, here's my conversation with the programme's creators.

The presenter, Sir Andrew Dillnot, and speaking first, producer Michael Blastland, and it's

followed by the very first episode ever broadcast.

We'd proposed, I think, a couple of ideas for series which were just battered back,

you know, no interest.

And I think there were numerous objections, you know, that it was a boys thing, a bit train

spotter.

In other words, it's boring.

You can't do numbers on the radio, that was a common one.

You know, if you're reading numbers, you can go back and check them, you know, but they're

too hard otherwise, just in radio.

And I don't think any of this was right, but you know, it was an established view.

And so having tried all these sort of attempts to get something on Andrew and I finished

up in a pizza rear just around the corner from the Institute for Physical Studies one lunch

time, and he said, okay, what are we going to try next?

And for some reason, I don't really understand.

I said, let's offer it as a magazine programme about numbers, thinking of numbers as a language

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