Pods save the Queen!

Hello and welcome to Pod Save the Queen and happy Jubilee Week.

Now this is our listeners and friends of the podcast episode.

Thank you so much to everyone who has sent in their favorite

stories and memories of meeting the Queen. I've absolutely loved going through them and

I must say I'm awfully jealous of a lot of you. Now what also makes today a very special occasion is I have managed to drag our producer I say drag

Willingly tempt with cake

Her producer Dan Jackson into the studio and he's sitting opposite me wearing headphones and everything.

Hi Dan.

Kicking and screaming.

Yeah this one's been a fun one to bring together.

We're surrounded by paper and sound files and

checklists and yeah hopefully should be fun. Yeah I've got absolutely no idea

what's happening there's lots of buttons there's lots of lights going and

and also I will for full disclosure we had a cake buffet in the office today so

Dan and I have eaten an awful lot of sugar and so apologies if we're a bit

energetic and loud but we are also very excited because of course it's the

Jubilee. Now I'm going to kick us off by telling my favorite memory of the Queen and I have

seen her one... Wait wait wait wait wait wait let's do this properly. So Zoe, welcome to the show. Do you have a favorite

memory, a memory of the Queen that you'd like to share with us? Well, thank you so much for asking Dan.

My, I've actually seen the Queen once, but it was from from a far. I went to Royal

Ascot and we saw her, obviously when they do the carriage, the carriage ride through and we were very

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