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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. Believe it or not,

it's the 17th March. 17th March is St Patrick's Day. Birthday is all over the place.

Birthdays all over the place. As if you've downloaded my full program, you'd have heard,

not only is it my birthday today jose is on

saturday and um uh tony paledry's son celebrates his 11th birthday today and henry who's

nick ferrari's senior producer executive producer they give them such good titles. It's, it's his mum's

birthday today as well. So everybody's celebrated, if you're celebrating your birthday, also

Johnny Essex is, it's his birthday as well. Everybody's got a birthday today. March is a very

popular birthday. So if you're celebrating many happy returns of the day,

see, at least somebody remembered.

At least somebody remembered.

And we've got a Nick Abbott.

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That's it, that's it, isn't it?

Are they in the system?

Oh, he'll be furious.

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