I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom of December and this is episode 51 of Marathon Talk.

Now, as this show falls in between Christmas and the New Year, we've got something a little different for you.

We're going to be taking a look back over our first year and revisiting some of your and

our highlights.

We'll take you behind the scenes of the show, share some of our

favorite outtakes and moments from the year and have a big laugh doing it.

Tom, where are you?

Well I'm actually in probably the best sound recording studio that we've ever put

marathon talk out from.

I'm in the, I'm in my mums, what do you call these things?

Conservatories, I'm in my mum's conservatory. Hang on a second, I thought we recorded

this show at Marathon Talk Towers with a production suite?

Well, normally we do have the full production facilities of my bedroom in your garden shed.

However, this week we have upgraded to my mom's conservatory and it's good.

Although we have spent all day battling Skype, haven't we?

Yeah, Skype we noticed went down last night and as many of you may know, we record the

show over that remotely because

Tom's based in Leeds I'm based down in Dorset however today Skype has been down

and it's meant we've been scuppered yeah I I'm at my mums for Christmas. We're actually

recording this if you get some funny references today to the date. We're actually

recording this on Thursday the 20, well I don't know what day it is, Thursday the 22nd, whatever the day the Thursday was that week of December.

So if, for example, the show comes out and

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