Before you listen to this BBC podcast I want to tell you why I love podcasting.

Hi my name's Tommy Dixon and I make podcast for the BBC. I'm a big fan of stories

always loved a good book but when I started commuting for my first job, I discovered

podcasts. I was blown away about how a creative idea and the right mixture of sounds

could take you into a whole new world full of incredible stories. You know, the type that

make you go, wow. And that kind of inspired me to give it a go myself,

which to cut a long story short led to a BBC training scheme and a whole new career given other people that exact same feeling. So if you want to hear

amazing stories that make you go wow like I did, they're just a tap or a click away

on BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. Thank you very much.

Hello and welcome to Can you hear me now on BBC Radio 4?

I'm your host, stand-up farmer Jim Smith.

Thank you so much for coming out on this cold Glasgow evening.

You're a hardy and sorry looking bunch, I tell you.

I don't know whether to applaud you or get flossed around you

in a pen.

So can you hear me now is a showcase for some of the best up-and-coming

character comedians performing online and live on the UK comedy circuit and

what a lineup we've got for our first show, ladies gentlemen.

Later on, we'll have Posh Boy rapper, MC Hammersmith.

Edinburgh Award winner Lorna Rose Trane. And viral character comics, Michael. Warner Rose Train and Vowice

and viral character comics Michael Fry and Eleanor Morton.

Wonderful I'm sure agree.

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