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Welcome to Part 2 of my chat with the fabulous David Bedeel.

If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, get on it immediately as I think

you'll really love it. And also do yourself a favor and order yourself a copy of David's

new memoir, My Family, because it's a thing of total genius and joy.

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Here's David and Frank Skinner's dog Poppy and Ray Ray.

So one of the things that I was really conscious of in the

book was you know this relationship you talk about with the truth.

Yeah.

And authenticity, I suppose.

And you talk about your mom's funeral,

and it kind of kick-starts the book in the way.

People keep coming up to you saying she was wonderful she was

a wonderful woman your mom and this just rings slightly hollow for you doesn't

it? More than hollow I would say it made me slightly angry at the time, although I actually envisaged a scenario which

is exorbitant of what was happening inside me in terms of my anger, which was I say, imaginatively to these people, okay, so what was

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