Here comes Steve, with the satisfied smile of a man who's checking out at midday after a great night's sleep and a delicious unlimited brecky.

See the untamable bedhead here, and if you look really close, you can see that properly well-rested glow,

which can only mean one thing.

Last night he slept at Premier Inn. Get better sleep for your money. Premier Inn. Rest easy. Breakfast subject to availability. Tees and C's apply. Good morning. It's three minutes after ten and you are... Did you hear me? I just clap my hands then. I've turned into a supply teacher. Did you hear that? Did the microphone pick that up? I went, good morning. And then I went a little clap of the hands.

Sit down. Everybody happy. Come on. Come in. Don't be late. Come on. You've got, don't worry about your homework. We'll talk about it after the program. You got all your folders. Mikey. You got your pencils. I don't want another repeat of yesterday's

episodes. I think I

think what's happening to me. It seems to be

regressing as I get older.

Possibly it's I don't want another repeat of yesterday's episodes. I don't know what's happening to me.

I seem to be regretting as I get older.

Possibly it's a sort of emotional reaction to the gravity and the grimness of the news agenda.

But who knows?

At least we have each other's company for three hours every day, even when we find ourselves discussing the major issues of the moment,

which you won't be surprised to learn.

We'll not today include the underpants police being introduced to the changing rooms of the United Kingdom.

We can at least raise a smile on each other's faces.

Four minutes after ten, it's the time.

You know they're thinking of banning Daniel Medvedev from Wimbledon on the grounds that a

Russian victory could boost the Vladimir Putin regime? That's got radio phone in written all over

it, hasn't it, that question? Whether it's fair, whether it's right, whether it's wrong. I'm also

drawn, believe it or not, to a conversation about coronavirus today. Does anybody know? Does

anybody pay attention? Does

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