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Hello, welcome along to the Shore Theatre. My name is Danny Wallace.

I am a member of the Metropolitan Liberal Media Elite.

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And I'm delighted to be here to talk to a man I've been listening to on the radio for years back in the days when LBC mainly had people ringing up about kind of potholes and bin collections. And in those days, this man probably had to scrabble around to find topics to discuss, and then

the world went wrong. Now, he's written a book based on his more than 15 years' experience

of talking to more than a million people a week, but also more crucially, perhaps, listening

to them. Described by The Guardian as written by an exceptional broadcaster with a

peerless ability to calmly point out the absurdity of certain viewpoints, it quickly became a Sunday

Times bestseller. Words like cathartic, incisive and voice of reason, pepper the reviews that

describe it. Though it was also described by Mr. PJ Joyce on Amazon as sanctimonious dribble

from the world's most famous champagne socialist.

Mr. Joyce gave the book one star.

I looked at his other reviews.

He's quite, you know, discerning. He's saved his

five stars only for a battery charger. It's true. And the book, Anyone Can Do It, the Duncan

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