You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan

I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy

podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.

Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,

making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.

But you know I also know that comedy is really

subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer

from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you

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A few months ago, our guest here today wrote a sweet and sensitive article about

packing up the contents of her parents' house.

The experience was almost unbearable, the introduction said.

Amongst the items passed down from the attic, my entire childhood it went on, are a fine yet too heavy sledge, twinkle and

Jackie annuals and a heavy trunk containing 60 Enid Blighten books. Imagine that.

Well Janice Turner, a columnist for The Times, a winner of

interviewer of the year, columnist of the year, was the writer of that piece and Janice

is here today. Well there was a time in my childhood probably between the age of about 7 and 10,

although I don't really have a date for it,

but I don't think I read anything else but Eunie Blayton.

I probably started with the Magic Faraway tree which is this amazing story of

you go to the top of a tree and all these different worlds come to see you and then I

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