I'm I'm going to be able to be. I'm Welcome to Socrates in the city in Oxford.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Yes, yes, thank you. As you very much.

Yes, yes, thank you.

As you know, we're doing a whole series of these here in Oxford.

Willie Sutton, the bank robber when we asked,

why did he rob banks?

He said, because that's where the money is.

And people ask me, why Oxford?

And I said, well, that's where the speakers are.

So here we are.

Doing a series with a number of wonderful speakers. This series, Socrates and City, is something we do in New York City. You can go online to Socratesandthe City.com, and you can see a raft of interviews with people from Malcolm Gladwell to NT Wright, I think. So many. but Socratesandascom, and we'll keep doing more.

These will air on the NRB network in the States,

and they'll be available online on our website as well.

So now it falls to me to introduce Peter Hitchens,

which is essentially impossible.

So here's my effort at that.

I'm going to read portions of the printed biography.

Very complicated, Peter.

And you can apologize for this when you come up.

British journalist, yes, famous for his bold and obstinate style, written or spoken. I say that particularly because Americans tend not to know Peter Hitchens.

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