Hi, welcome back to the podcast, a brand new, exciting guest for you. You're going to love this. I'm talking today to Larry Lamb. Now, you'd know Larry from a lot of things. Maybe the two big, relatively recent ones are are EastEnders? Not very nice in that.

And Gavin and Stacey, very nice in that. That's how I know him, obviously, for 20 years now,

working together on Gavin and Stacey. And I wanted to have him on for so long, because when we are

doing Gavin Stacey, he is a repository of stories.

And I foolishly thought, well, maybe I've heard them all.

I had not.

He comes out with some porkers here, and you'll hear me say to him,

why haven't you told me this before?

From his troubled childhood to becoming a young man wanting to leave the country just to get away from that troubled family setup.

From starting out in waste paper, in oil, and then kind of drifting into the theatre.

He has such a story to tell.

I think you'll enjoy this.

There's not much of me in this, and that can only be a good thing.

Please relax and enjoy, Brighton and Larry Lamb.

Let's get the elephant in the room out of the way.

Yeah, I did.

We're both waiting to see the Gavin and Stacey Christmas special.

How much fun was it filming it?

Yeah.

It was such a, like a real, I hate the term like a roller coaster,

but you know, an emotional roller coaster,

seeing everybody again, working together again,

...