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Hello and welcome to full disclosure with me, James O'Brien, a project which I often describe as designed entirely to allow me to spend a decent amount of time with people that I've always wanted to meet.

And Sir Lenny Henry fits very squarely into that category. We did cross paths once. I was in the audience on Tizwas.

No way! Straight up. We were a small child being pulled up by your ears by Chris Terrant or Sally James.

I didn't get pulled up by the ears. I dreamt of being pulled up by the ears. My mum was in the cage.

It's a kind of abuse that, I think. It was a different era, as your book actually said. Different times. But my mum was in the cage with the Phantom Flamflinger

and you were, you know, doing Trevor Macdonough, the Phantom Flamflinger. It was ahead of its time, Tiswell.

I think so. And I think that if you think about how much it cost to make that show and how much they spend on

television programmes now, that show cost 250 could a week.

You can have as much as many buckets of water and buckets of gunges and custard pie as you liked.

There was a man dressed as a pig playing the piano.

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