Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction pieces podcast episode 375 and this week's guest is Jane Horrocks.

I'm so excited to do this one. It came about in a really interesting way. I think I mentioned it at the end of the podcast, but I did an advert on this podcast about Skycube.

One of the shows I picked in their upcoming list was a show that stars Jane and I mentioned what a fan I was of her and some of the A cast reached out and said, you know she's got a podcast on A cast right called Queen B's and I said, no, I didn't.

I gave it a listen and I loved it. And they said, yeah, would you like to have her on the podcast? And I did very much want to have.

Jane on the podcast and it happened. So I hope you enjoy this chat. I'm going to explain something now that might not read, but it might do because as you know, I say this all the time on these zoom ones.

There's often slight lags or delays and you might end up overlapping or seem as if you're being rude because you go to talk when they've.

You think they've stopped and they haven't on this one, Jane's webcam wasn't on and mine was so there's a dynamic there where I'm listening, but I'm also trying to drive the conversation along.

So yeah, I don't know if you'll notice that I thought I'd mention it, but Jane was absolutely amazing. I'm so pleased to get some time with her and you'll hear how excited I am and how much I enjoy her podcast as well as her career.

And now her as a person as we chat, you can support the podcast by going to patreon.com forward slash screwbius pip are we doing a zoom hang out on there soon.

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Anyway, I will get on with the podcast. This is episode 375 of the distraction pieces podcast with the amazing Jane Horricks.

I'm joined today by a legend of stage and screen and as I've learned in 2020, developing a legend of the hive.

Jane Horricks, how are you? I'm good. How have you been in these unusual times? I've been surprisingly good actually. I've enjoyed a lot of it.

In fact, I've enjoyed most of it because it's just a new way of being, which I think is always quite challenging, but often in a good way.

Yeah, I completely agree. I think particularly in industries like film and TV that don't really accept the concept of time off and pause in and take in a breath.

It's in many ways a positive to have that forced upon you at times to to readdress everything and to to see how you feel and where you stand, I guess.

Yeah, so I think that word that you use is very good to take a pause. Yeah. My son used to go to a sort of Buddhist-led school and they were taught to pause between each lesson.

And I think that's a really great way of being to just take some time to stand still and look around and just see what you've been missing actually.

Yeah, I love that. I think that's a beautiful thing. And I think that the world has gone so far towards us all feeling pressured to have instant responses to everything, an instant analysis of everything that happens in the whole world because of social media and everything else, I guess.

I think posing even to see how you think about something is a really positive way of being rather than feeling you have to spout out your instant reaction or feelings. That idea of of posing is a powerful one.

Yeah, no, it definitely is definitely is. And I think that people's response to nature, particularly in the first lockdown where we saw less with that amazing spring.

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