This is an I-Heart podcast.

There's a long tradition in audio recording.

To test someone's microphone, you ask them what they had for breakfast.

So I put that question to today's guest, William Hanson.

I had two poached eggs on some toast.

If that sounds a bit elaborate for a random breakfast at home, you haven't heard the half of it.

I used a fork in a knife. I put a placemat down, napkin.

We did it relatively formally for a Monday.

Place mats, napkins?

I can't remember the last time I used a cloth napkin for breakfast.

I'm not even sure I own any cloth napkins.

Does everybody not have a napkin collection?

They should.

I can strongly advocate for having one because, you know,

as anyone knows, in etiquette we have four different types of napkin size. And I think it's nice

to have an array. I think a proper napkin so much better than a sort of a tattie paper one or a piece

of kitchen towel or something like that, which is not pleasant and very coarse on the lips.

And when I, ago, when I was

living in a flat, we had a fire that was in the laundry cupboard and the napkins were right

next door to the fire. And this is not what we advise people to do in the case of the fire,

but I decided to save the napkins and was very carefully moving them out whilst the flat burned

around me.

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