Frank Skinner is here. Frank, I'm so sorry that you failed in your bid to become Pope.

Yeah, it was all right. I mean, it was a half-hearted campaign looking back, really.

It was pretty well nailed on, I knew, as an insider.

But we have got our first Pope Frank.

Yeah, Francis, that's the annoying thing, is that I was saving that name for myself, obviously, so it's not going to happen. I could be, I qualify. If you're a baptised male Catholic, you can be Pope. You don't have to be a priest or anything like that. Is there ever been a rags to riches, well, you know, for want of a better phrase, Pope's story? No, I don't know the answer to that. I'm not sure that there has been just... Oh, there was a guy called... One who went on to become St. Clementine V. Pope Clementine V. I don't think he... I think he was a monk originally. But he only lasted a few weeks and he didn't like it. He was the last one to walk. Because that's a Hollywood film waiting to happen, isn't it? It was a bit like when

Keegan left the England job, it was a bit like that. He'd taken the church as far as he

could take it. Well, you're here to celebrate your fourth birthday at Absolute Radio. And can I talk

through the way I remember it and see if I'm right?

Please do.

So in my memory, you were down and out.

You've been hit very hard by the financial crisis of 2008.

That's correct.

You were still doing your little comedy sketches on stage.

Skit, my skits.

Yeah, you'd still doing those.

And you'd publish this little book, but things were going

badly for you.

And I, out of pity, had you as a guest on the show.

And I said to you, Frank, Frank, you should go on the radio.

And then from there, it burgeoned.

Is that how you remember it?

I think you were referring to working as a minicab driver as well when you said go on the radio.

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