Just to let you know, this episode contains very strong language. Please be advised.

Hi, Alice. Hi, Matt. Just a few things before we record that we've kind of just collated into one

place. Just a little bit of feedback on the show. So far now we're at kind of 30 series.

Whatever. Okay. Just the first thing that the producers really want, I mean, to mention was the

accents, mostly amazing. But the women's accents could just be a tiny bit more nuanced perhaps.

Oh, Alice, don't worry, you're pretty little head about accents. I know what women sound like,

and I think I know how to recreate them in audio form. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Number two,

so the pace, sometimes it could just be that bit quicker. I think you could be a bit quicker

making this point, to be honest. Possibly, yeah. And finally, it's just about the drama,

obviously, the writing's so brilliant, so we could maybe in the reading just sort of up the tension.

Well, thanks for the totally useless feedback. Yeah. I won't be taking any of on board today,

or indeed in the future, because in that little envelope there, with your name on it,

is your P45. I was really just saying.

Enough. Thanks.

14th of October 2022, Daily Star newsroom, Canary Wharf, London.

Ed Kebel dashes along the busy corridor to the newsroom. He works on the social media team

at the Daily Star. He's late for a meeting with his editor, who from his latest email,

Ed suspects may have totally lost the plot. He sits down opposite Dennis Mann,

a thick set man with a round face, clears his throat.

You wanted to see me about a lettuce? Mann shoves a copy of the economist at him.

Liz Truss has tanked the economy in seven days. According to this,

it's less than the shelf life of a lettuce. I want you to live stream a lettuce and see if she can

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