This is Frank Skinner, Absolute Radio. Guess what? I'm not Frank Skinner. I'm sick of living

a lie. I'm going to come clean for once and for good. I'm Emily Dean. I'm standing

in for Frank this morning because he's indisposed. I think it's the Black Death. I'm not sure

what it is now. I actually think he's had that nor Efron virus thing. So we love you Frank

and we wish you well. But Alan Cochran is also, I don't know if he's indisposed. I think

he's on tour in Afghanistan with James Donald was what I last heard. But I do have to

rather hand some replacements this morning. I have Steve Hall and I have Matt Ford. Good

morning. Good morning boys. Can I say hello boys? Yes. I don't know if Kirsty Walks

start to interview us like that. But I like you here. It feels a bit like, you know, and

they have an episode of Dallas and the entire cast is just replaced overnight with that

explanation. That's kind of what's happened this morning. This is officially the best spoken

this show will have been done in many years. I won't have you say that about Birmingham.

How dare you? It's more the Cochran, it's more the Huddersfield thing. Yes, this is true.

Or the Murfield thing. But I have to say Steve, you have had a sighting of Frank. I have

seen Frank. I can confirm that he is alive. I was making him sound like John Dottlewin

Kenumaan here, but no, we're not suggesting he's lying. He is ill. It's just convenient

that a vacancy opens up for Pope. I think he's working on a CV. That's my theory. We were

wondering into our shared management company, the Delightful. Oh, at the same time. He was

leaving and I was arriving and so I was walking down the road near him. I'll be honest, he

did look a bit peaky. Did he? And I thought that might just because he's 56. Oh, it's

backside leaving turned. But he had that troubled look when someone walks down the street.

The troubled look, but it's just Matt FYI, he often has the troubled look. I see the troubled

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