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This is Steve Allen's A Little Bit Extra, leading Britain's conversation. You're listening to

our podcast of Steve Allen.

Morning everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today. I know. I know what you're going to say to me.

You're going to say, where's the rain, Steve? Where's the sunshine? And the answer is, it rained a little bit as I was coming in yesterday morning.

I did do something yesterday, which I do like doing. It makes me sound terribly, terribly sort of sad, but I'm such a fan of circus. We've got Zippo's circus in Twickenham at the moment on the green. And yesterday all the lorries arrived and the tent and everything else. They put up the poles and all the rest of it and then they sort of winch it up there and they put all the lights to go up and i was watching them doing the lights they hadn't actually got round to doing the tent all the

wagons were backed up and everything else and you know all the people who work on the circus show

they have to help set up the tent and everything else they were going around i mean you know none of

this sort of i'm a celebrity kind of thing, because I've seen some of the people before.

And it starts tomorrow.

And they were doing it. And I couldn't understand he was taking out light bulbs. Every sort of tenth light bulb he was taking out. And what they were doing is putting in a light bulb that flashes. so that when they have them going all the way up the side of the tent,

at nighttime, it looks fantastic because you've got the white lights

and then sort of the flashing bits all over the place.

And I thought, so they'll be there for three days and then they have to take it all down again

and then they move on to somewhere else and then they set it all up again.

I mean it's unbelievable the work they have to do.

So as we've got Zippo Circus in Twickenham, go and support it. Go and support it. Because they move

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