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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Thursday, September the 15th.

Which means you've still got four more days.

Four more days of people arriving in town.

I left here yesterday, and because of the buses

situation, I had to get the tube. But surprisingly, I still managed to get the 728 train. I could

actually go from here down to Embankment Tube. Nobody. You know, there were a few people milling around and there were loads

of people in fluorescent jackets, stewards and everything else. We're obviously loads of those on the

route. And I got the, I missed the first train to Waterloo. It's only one stop. Second one came in.

I looked at my watch. Oh, it's still only like 10 past. And I got to Waterloo Station, and I was left with six minutes.

I ambled down the platform, as you do, and managed to get...

Actually, managed to get home quicker than had I got the blooming bus.

Because the bus drops you, then you've got to go up and then walk all the way.

Whereas, in fact, if you arrive on the tube, which are all operating with extra tubes

on, you come up the escalator into Waterloo Station, do a sharp right, then you're on the platform.

It's very, very good indeed. Anyway, so how did it go yesterday? Brilliantly. Absolutely brilliantly.

All the troops were amazing, the gun carriage was amazing, everybody.

When you consider they hadn't rehearsed a lot of this, a lot of it hadn't been rehearsed,

but they just know what to do. And as I say, this was all planned out donkeys years ago.

The Queen would have made provision for her funeral a long time ago. They'd have been through it.

So she would know exactly what was her funeral a long time ago. They'd have been through it.

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