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Ah! Hello, welcome to I am the Egg Pod with me, Chris Shaw. The Egg Pots take a jaunty strollppeland, discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums

with a popery of delicious guests. In this episode, it's a joy to welcome, Chair of the Writers' Guild

of Great Britain, BAFTA Award-winning writer, performer, producer and author, Gail Raynard.

Ah, hi, Chris. Thanks very much.

It's wonderful to be here.

I was going to say, I've just become the former chair of the Writers Guild, but I'm still...

Have you?

Yeah, but I'm still very active and we'll be doing other things now instead with them.

Cool.

Before we start, there's a couple of things I have to ask you.

First of all, you were a member of the original Pipkins team.

Yeah, it was one of the first things I wrote at ATV Elstree with Nigel Plaskett, who was Hartley Hare and Susan Pleat. And I'm thrilled to say that we got

together again with two other partners. And we've created a new series for a new generation of children.

And it's called Monty & Co. And our company, Pipkins Productions Limited, made it. And the BBC has just

bought it. So it's going to be on CBBs any moment now. Superb. Hartley lives on. We'll

Hartley be making an appearance. No, unfortunately not. Hartley is retired. I was going to say

Hartley lives on a farm, but that sounds ominous.

I see Hartley from time to time, and we do charity gigs together.

Oh, that's lovely.

And he also presented an award at the Writers Guild Awards in January.

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