Look, I hope you're taking some enjoyment out of listening to these. It's strange when you read

writing back. I recorded both of the books published with Backpage Press, Barsa and the Making of the Greatest

Team in the World, and Spain, the history of their remarkable treble I recorded both them as audiobooks when you read I don't know a hundred thousand words

One of the most distressing things is that you find errors that in reading without reading aloud you've been

through six seven eight nine times and missed you also find phrasing that you wish

you'd reach or done correctly the first time.

I have to say and I'm sorry if this means little to most of you. But when I was a boy, we would often visit my

Grand's house in Huntley and in northeast Aberdeen, and there'd be this brilliant Radio 4 missive from Alistair Cook, an Englishman who had been moved

by the guardian to North America in, I suppose, the 30s of 40s and who had begun from the war onwards

to record a weekly letter from America it was called. The style of this was fantastic because he had a theme sometimes

he deviate from it occasionally you wouldn't be clear about what that theme was until he came into the last two and a half three minutes of what he was reading.

It could cover politics, sports, society, international relations, but he sounded

wise it sounded fair it was interesting it was in the time when with initially initially from my case one television station gradually to

finally three which was amazing obviously no internet you had to conjure mental pictures.

I asked the cook stuff.

He did that for me when he talked about Ali or when he talked about Jack Kennedy.

It brought images to mind it.

It nestled in my consciousness and admiration and an interest in the USA

But when I read I know that my phrasing has been subconsciously lifted from what I listened to when Alistair Cook every Sunday morning

read his letter from America.

And what I aim for and to conjure mental pictures. What I aim for is not to dictate information,

but to share stuff that I've had the privilege of seeing or hearing my travels take me to meet.

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