This week's Otisot is a bit unusual because for complicated logistical reasons Johnny is mining the shop on his own.

But ironically, here's me popping up at the beginning to tell you that we're doing some more live recordings.

Three of them in fact, starting with one at the Mini Factory in Oxford on Thursday the 28th of November.

After that, we'll be back at the Aston Workshop Car Barn in Beamish County Durham on Wednesday

the 18th of December.

And in the new year, we'll be at the Mallory Hall in Eastbourne on Thursday the 6th of

February.

Tickets for all three shows are on sale now.

Just go to smith and sniff.com, follow the signs for live shows, and you'll find links to the tickets there.

Hope to see you in the audience soon.

And now, here's Johnny.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, welcome to Ottersot on the other side of things, where we answer your questions,

which you've emailed to us in letter form, electric letter form.

Let's start with a question, because that's the way this works.

We've got a question from A.J. Jones.

I've got a question, they say, I don't know if they're here or a she. I've got a question that I'm well aware I could Google and probably get the answer in about five seconds. But where's the bloody fun in that? I was talking about cars with my 22-year-old stepdaughter the other day. And out of nowhere, she regaled me with this nugget of

apparent automotive fact in inverted commas, as she puts it. Apparently, the patent for heated

front wind screens is owned by Fawoods. And that's why some lower spec cars of any other make don't come with a heated screen,

as it isn't worth the company paying for the licence if the car isn't that valuable.

Is that actually true?

I'm 42 years old, I've been into cars for almost my entire life,

and have never heard this fact before.

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