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Well, that sounds like Sir Lindsay Hoyle to me, plugging the newscast.

Well, done.

In happier times.

In sillier times, actually.

A lot sillier times. So he came on

newscast once upon a time, which feels like another age and he brought someone

else with him. Okay. A parrot. He has a parrot. He has a whole menagerie,

Lindsay Hoyle. In fact there's a fabulous photograph of him where he's posing with a

kind of a tortoise and a dog and this and the other and Boris his parrot.

And for a long time I've been trying to say to Lindsay Ohio, oh come on newscaster, it'd be really interesting to have you on,

come on, come on, and if you come on, can you bring your parrot?

And fair play to him, he did eventually agree, not just to come on and do a long interview,

but to bring the parrot.

Right. But when he brought the parrot, this is what happened.

Hello, does he not like things over his head?

Let's go... Just be careful. Oh, nice.

It's like a dog, I think you shouldn't go in over the head to go on.

You can just move a little to the on. We're just going to...

Oh no, Boris!

I knew you'd do this and you're not going to bite me.

Come on. Goodbye he said goodbye. I mean the

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