Hi everybody, Andy here. Just before we started this week's show, we wanted to introduce

our very special guest who was live at the Soho Theatre with us a couple of weeks ago

when we recorded this, he is none other than the mighty Richard Osman. You might know

him from pointless, you might know him from Richard Osman's House of Games, his appearances

on QI, his appearances on every other brilliant British comedy panel show ever made, and he

is also the author of a series of books called The Thursday Murder Club. And if you have

read a book in the last few years, there is a pretty good chance that it was one of the

Thursday Murder Club novels because they are absolutely titanic. They have broken so

many records they have sold millions of copies. The first three in the series are called

The Thursday Murder Club, the man who died twice and the bullet that missed. They're about

a gang of retired sleuths who live in a retirement village in Kent. They like going through

casenotes of old murders and then they find crime start happening a little closer to home.

They're honestly such good books. They manage to pull off the trick of being simultaneously

gripping and thrilling at their page shunners. You have to keep reading, you have to find

out what comes next and also being heartwarming and joyful and very human are the characters

are beautifully drawn. There is a reason they have sold so many millions of copies

around the world and that's because they're really good. We are all huge fans of them

and the next in the series is called The Last Devil to Die. Very exciting title and it

is out soon. It's out on the 14th of September. It is available to pre-order now from wherever

you get your books. It is a safe bet that anywhere that sells books will be selling The

Last Devil to Die and they will have lots of copies. So that's it. We just wanted to say

we're super excited to have Richard on. We've been trying to get him for years and finally

...