Hello, I'm currently out of office.

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.

Yours, Toby.

Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.

Atul protected.

This is a global original podcast.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Full Disclosure with me, James O'Brien, a podcast. Hello and welcome to the latest episode of full disclosure with me, James O'Brien,

a podcast project designed to allow me to spend a little bit more time than is ordinarily

available with some of the people I find most delightful or most interesting in the public

sphere, a description which couldn't fit this week's guest better.

I speak of course of Dawn French. Hello, Dawn.

Hello, nice to see you.

It's very nice to see you. I have had the pleasure of interviewing you before,

and it occurred to me while I was looking back on our previous encounters,

that I find it impossible to believe

that you are as happy and well-adjusted as you always seem.

No, I can be grumpy and stinky, and, you know, I can be over-anxious,

I can catastrophes, and I can continue with this list of all my shortcomings. But hopefully some of the

other stuff outweighs that. So how given that context, how have you coped with, or how did you

cope with lockdown and the continuing confusion? Well, oh goodness me, it was frightening, wasn't it?

I think I was so afraid at the beginning because I thought there was a giant invisible killer.

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