Hello and welcome to the fully charged show podcast this isn't going to be a proper

episode this is really more of a just a brief update and an explanation of what we're

up to so I'm very proud of the team and all of us

involved in making fully charged that we've managed to maintain our output over the

last few weeks. It has been particularly difficult because one of our

critical team members Ben Bruton Cox has been extremely unwell he's had

C19 he's been ill since I don't know March I can't even want to think about it.

He's been in hospital for the last three and a half weeks.

He's come out of hospital today.

We're all so thrilled to hear that.

We've seen some lovely pictures of him back with his family. I don't know how he is. I haven't spoken to him yet,

but it's such an amazing relief to see him out of hospital. Now Ben normally produces the

podcast, so I've been doing it and one of our team

members Louis has also been helping do that but they possibly haven't in audio

quality terms and final mix terms haven't been up to their normal high

standard and I apologize for that but we have managed to keep them going but what

we decided a while ago is that we would take August off releasing podcasts.

So this will be the last one for a couple of weeks.

It's not that long, a few weeks.

Because we've already got what's really wonderful when you do this sort of thing is

having episodes in the bank as it were and so we've got a couple of episodes

already lined up and finished and we've got one I'm recording one this week which is

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