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Yeah Mark, yes I'm sorry. I actually can't have this conversation with you because last week

you were hiding behind a huge pop shield and this week I can't describe what it is that

is obscuring your face at the moment other than to say that it is the biggest microphone

I have ever seen in my life. What's up with your big bad self?

It even sounds like you see now if I talk in Marga, my big bad microphone is nothing

like as big as normal. No it's not as little bit smaller and it's

a little bit smaller. And before we started this whole thing, I said to Josh who's our engineer

I said the only problem with today's show is that Mark is not going to like the size

of my microphone and he'll want to talk about it quite a bit and as it turned out,

that was number one on the agenda. I am nothing if not predictable and you know nothing

you should be you should be reassured that in these times of uncertainty and change

there is something that you can always rely on which is my deep rooted sense of insecurity.

Well the thing is I needed a new microphone very quickly because you brought the

microphone back to you because well that could that could be right but later on on this

broadcast people were here in interview with Pablo Lorraine the director and Gail Galsier

Bernal who's the star one of the stars of this movie Emma and I had to do it yesterday

and the mic broke so they had to whisk a surgically cleaned microphone to me very quickly and

it just turned out to be this lovely thing.

But I mean the absurd thing about it is I mean as you yourself said of it it's almost like

the microphone has been designed to say look how enormous I am. It's got these two great

but it's got two big noblight controls on it. It looks like a spaceship it's black it's like

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