Well, hello, everyone. I want you to imagine, as you listen to your podcast today, me lying on a sun lounger, slathering myself with suntan lotion.

My Spanish stroke. It's beginning to sound like one of those phone lines, isn't it?

That was me being sick, yes.

0898, phone Jackie Smith.

Listen, we are, the reason for that is because this podcast, when you listen to it,

will actually have been recorded a week ago.

So it will be slightly less topical than usual.

But nevertheless, I think in the next hour or so, we will find plenty of things to talk about.

I hope to keep you interested.

What are we going to focus on in?

I'm actually in Baku at the moment.

So we're going to preview the World Cup.

We are going to talk about a new book called It's All About Clout by CNN's Max Foster. And we might also talk about the

Jeremy Thorpe series. But the main thing in this interview, interview, why did I say interview?

In this podcast is that we're going to answer a huge amount of your questions.

Let's start by talking about the Jeremy Thorpe series, which has finished now as this podcast

goes out, but we've only seen the first two episodes. I've got mixed feelings about it, and I

have enjoyed it, and I think Hugh Grant is a brilliant Jeremy Thorpe. And I

knew Jeremy Thorpe. So he's got his mannerisms. He even looks like him. Though I can't understand why they've got his hair parted on the wrong side. But maybe that, there must be a reason for that, I suppose. They were looking in a mirror when they did it. Well, maybe, but it's a bit of an elementary thing to get wrong, isn't it?

And I see Port Cullis House was spotted in one of the episodes as well, which I don't know how they do that.

When you do something from a different period, it's almost impossible, I would have thought, to avoid one or two little things like that happening.

The thing I object to is it's made it all a bit slapstick.

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