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, Tuesday, the 15th of March. I can't believe it either. I seriously can't believe it. I can't remember where we got to yesterday because unfortunately I went to bed early yesterday. Did they agree with anything in the talks that they were having?

Or are they still back at stalemate?

Because at this rate, you know, poor old Putin, who hasn't got the faintest idea what's going on,

even one of his news producers goes on television and infiltrates a program.

You might be hearing from her ever again, I shouldn't think.

And one girl held up a little sign out on the streets with two words on it. She was arrested in seconds. Everybody's turning against Putin. And it's a case of, you know, why can't he just admit it? Why can't we just sort of say to him? Listen, all right, you win. You know, let's go back to normal, shall we? You know, what do you want with this country?

You know, you can't be that stupid, surely. Look at it. It's decimated. You're bombing it to pieces.

What you're going to do? Go and rebuild it, love. What are you going to put in a pleasure garden? Build yourself a little palace. What's the point? with nothing at all, just wasteland, scrubland. Stupid man.

I mean, nobody can quite understand.

But as I say, if he does, I said it yesterday, I'll say it again.

If he decides he's going to use weapons of mass destruction, that's the end of the world.

And it'll happen so quickly, you won't even know about it.

You know, there'll just be a big flash of light and we'll all disappear and we'll all go straight to heaven and Putin will go straight to hell together with his family as well.

You know, and there'll be no Kremlin, there'll be no nothing. There'll be no Lenin's body.

Nothing. That would all been totally obliterated and he doesn't even see it.

He can't see further than the end of his nose.

But we have other things to talk about. Jackie Woodburn and Alan Fletcher from Neighbours promise a memorable finale. It's funny actually when you see them. I mean, 37 years, Neighbours

has been on the air. And Jackie said it had been a terrific training ground for cast and crew for

almost four decades. A bit like the Jeremy Kyle show. That was a training ground for what?

I watched it again, that programme.

It's been on two nights running.

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