Hello.

Anyone notice anything?

Cresp about my voice?

Well, first things first, because I haven't been to Hoopler,

whereas everyone who's been to Hoopla seems to have lost their voice.

Mighty Hoopler I'm referring to, of course. At the big gay festival we had this weekend,

Lily Allen played, Jay MacDonald played. Really was the full

cross-section. It's kind of what I love about Hoopla though. It's because I've got a new microphone,

everybody. I was informed by Alice, producer of Table Manners, a podcast via a friend that my sound wasn't good enough.

So I said that's not good enough for the Homo sapiens listeners.

They've got myself on you, Mike. Is it recording, though? That's the big question.

Yes, that's recording. Just say goodbye to my husband. He's gone to work. And I bet as I'm walking up this road, we're on video people. This is the lane I live on.

I bet he will drive past. First things first, it's being recorded on Monday. It's happy Pride Month. It's been an interesting thing this year because

I rung in Pride Month watching Tiptoe, Russell T. Davies' new drama, which is about the, it's a thriller, about the horrific death of a gay man and why and about social division,

all that division we see online.

And neither of those are spoilers.

And actually Russell is coming to talk to us about the show in a few hours, which is very exciting. So I've put out something

on socials for you guys to ask him your questions. And it's interesting because so much discussion

has been around, you know, there's increased division and Russell is the

person responsible for it's a sin, he's the man responsible for queerest folk, which, well,

let's start with queer as folk, was such a lifeline to many of us.

And then tiptoe is kind of about how an old world of

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