This is a global original podcast.

Hello and welcome to full disclosure with me, James O'Brien,

a podcast project designed chiefly to allow me to spend a little bit more time than is usually available

with people that I've always wanted to spend a little bit more time than is usually available with,

a category into which LEMSSA fits very neatly.

I've seen you on stage once at a free festival in Charlton-Cumhardy in about

1991. Does that sound plausible?

Yeah, that sounds utterly plausible, yeah.

And I'd been at public school.

And there was something about the way that you brought poetry without any fanfare

or without any academic echo that, you know, I'd studied Keats.

I'd got an English A-level.

I knew all that.

But I'd never seen anything like that before.

I'm glad to have been part of that moment. It was. It was a moment.

And obviously, I've been aware of you ever since, but I wasn't fully aware, despite the

fact that you address it a lot in your work, about the full, let's be honest, Lem, if you were to

send your life story to a publisher as fiction, they'd probably have sent it back and said,

can we just make this a little bit more plausible, they'd probably have sent it back and said, can we just

make this a little bit more plausible, please? Can we tone it down? Well, just that bit there. Come on,

no one's going to buy that. Any script editor worth their salt. And that's my head as well.

That's what I've lived with, knowing that I had to find the evidence to make it irrefutable that the things that happened to me

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