Spurs in full cry here.

Lonella! Welcome, welcome, listeners to the extra inch, a bonus episode. My name is Windy, and I hope you're safe and well, listeners, in these troubling times.

In a week where the

fighting cock have made a fantastic podcast about COVID-19 and it's very wide-reaching sociological impact

that's for their patron subscribers you might expect the extra inch to be doing something similar

perhaps bringing in some data or medical experts to discuss this situation but no on this special

episode I'm joined by a

puppete. Chris Thatcher, welcome to the extra inch. Hello. Hello. Thank you for getting me on.

Thank you very much. Chris, you were a puppete on the quite incredible Netflix show, The Dark Crystal

Age of Resistance. Yeah. But you've got many other credits to your name too. But I'm very keen to

talk to you about spurs as

well and particularly how you ended up doing what you do but um can we start off by talking about

the dark crystal which i absolutely adored well thanks i'm glad you i'm glad you liked it um i'd like

to act really cool about it and say it was just another job for me but it wasn't um i think

any time that um henson's come

calling uh it's a it's a well you have to pinch yourself and i certainly did when they asked

for this project it's the second time that i've worked with them uh the first time being on on the

muppets film the muppets most wanted the Muppets Most Wanted.

And yeah, so when the Dark Crystal came around,

they called me on the day of the auditions.

I don't know why it was suddenly done at the last minute,

but they called me on the day of the auditions and said,

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