Mary, where are you today in the world?

I am in my own home in Stonyington, sitting on the sofa, nothing very exciting about that.

That would be London, yes, London, London Bar of Hackney.

Formerly middle sex in fact, so of course, yes, in middle sex until the boundary changes

of the early 1960s. I always like to make this point when talking about Stonyington.

Then we have to counter with, well, of course, before it was the home of all the, you know,

the detentors, Daniel DeFoe and so on, who's been memorialised by a road that was referred to by

all locals as DeFoe Road. So, you know, and also Mary Wollstonecroft? Yes, absolutely, absolutely,

so no, it's a good spot to be. Meanwhile, somewhere else in London, I assume London, Ben Moore

is on the internet. Yes, this is a very busy time of year for you isn't it? Because you've just

come back from the latitude festival in Southwark, is that in Southwark? Yeah, Henan Park,

just near Southwold, and me and the amazing Joanna Neary, we played two authors at a fake

author event that goes horribly wrong. It's called Book Talk Book Talk Book, and we're performing it

again at the Edinburgh Fringe in August, along with she's doing another show of her own,

called Wasp and a Cardigan, and I'm doing two other shows of my own. One's called Pro Noun Trouble,

and that's a lecture about Bugs Bunny and DeFoe Duck cartoons, but it deals with Laundretts as

many other subjects. Well, I don't want to give anything away, but it's amazing. Thank you.

And another show called Who His Lost, which is an hour long story about two oddballs going on a

road trip of the soul, and these are all at the Pleasant's Courtyard during the Edinburgh

Festival Fringe. Come along. Which is running throughout August. So if you're up at the Book Festival

in Edinburgh, and you fancy a walk on the wild side by going to the actual Fringe, you could do

that and go and see one of Ben's shows. I know a lot of people say things like their wedding day,

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