Now, on BBC Radio 4, we dip into the archives, with a warning that it does reflect the attitudes

of the time, we're off to the golf club. From 1973, Leslie Phillips, Robin Asquith and Hattie Jakes

star in an early episode of Three Off the Tea.

I'll tell you what, Mrs Fotheringham, your grip's really improved. moved. Hello and welcome once again to the old grey chipping forecast. I am whispering Andrew Cotter. Hello to Ian Carter. Hello Ian. How are you?

Hello Andrew. It sounds like you've had another busy week dreaming up further. I mean, for people who didn't hear the first episode, they'll wonder what three of the tea means, you know, three off the tea, I should say. Well, three off the tea is, well, they should go back and listen to the first episode then. We don't want people who are fly by night Come Lately. They've got to be dedicated to the chipping forecast. Maybe that strange intro will get them to go back to the first episode and binge listen. Other people do binge listen to pods, but we'll see. And if they don't, it was my idea to call this pod three off the tea. And it was summarily dismissed by you. Yes, yes it was.

So Eddie, hello, how are you?

Very well, Andrew, very well, thank you.

So Eddie has been, just to update you all,

what we've been doing since the last pod,

Eddie has been at the Wilderness Festival,

which the Wilderness Festival is held in the enormous, expansive wilds of Chipping Norton,

where vast herds, herds of jacintas looking for artisan bakeries,

Rome and the Wilds there. Why is it called the Wilderness Festival and how was it?

I'm not sure why it's called the Wilderness Festival, although having been there for three days,

it's an apt name. It was very good. It was entertaining, enlightening, fun, and yeah, some

incredible sites for it was a good three days. I've got to say, for my first ever festival,

I think I probably chose a good one. Good. You sound as energized as I am. So, but anyway, listen, I can see there are special guests there. So we should, we were going to do a bit of blathering before introducing him, but I think he should be. Hang on a second, Andrew. I'm the special guest. You're the special guest. So this is the special extraordinary guest. That's what I just wanted to make that point. Yeah. So Ian is the the regular special guest this is the irregular special guest who has come to join us

so actually Ian's writing a book at the moment how's that writing going in just

quickly it's not very quickly is the is probably the best way to to describe it all

the twists and turns of the Gulf Wars are a bit of a struggle to keep up with.

So it's been a bit of a frantic couple of weeks trying to get back up to speed with it.

But the publishers are on my back and I'm fighting them off.

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