My name is Kathleen and this is my NHS story.

Having a persistent cough is quite socially embarrassing.

So I went to see a respiratory nurse who sent me off for an x-ray at my local CDC and they were offering Sunday appointments and evening appointments which was great.

The government is opening new community diagnostic centres with many already available 12 hours a day, seven days a week, so the NHS can be there for all of us when we need it.

Find your closest one at gov.uk slash NHS fit for the future, available Englandwide.

By now, you know the drill.

For the last six years we've prefaced our Giro di Italia with one podcast that alas doesn't seem to have a whole lot to do with what we'll see on the race route over the next three weeks.

That's right, if you have no interest in wine, please switch off now and save your ears

for the various other, much more obviously Giro-related shows that we've prepared for a packed

few days leading up to the Grande Partenza.

Those of you who stick around will know that this is the space where every year we whimsically

indulge one of our passions, and in truth there is a link to cycling, especially the Grand

Tours, for what are the great three-week races, if not a celebration of the territories where they take place, and of what those territories produce in drama and raw materials.

Siking podcast has covered every Giro di Italia on the ground since 2016.

In that time we've learned and hopefully conveyed to you our listeners that these are epic

sagas played out on lands that live, breathe and change with every edition, or sometimes

even within the same edition.

As you also know by now, we'll never strive to divorce the sport from its context for among other reasons

we frankly don't want to so anyway the wine as always gregg and luciano giroato of divine

sellers have picked six bottles produced very close to the race route for our own cycling podcast

girovagando selection you can find a link to buy the case at the Divine website. A link for that

is in the show notes. Unfortunately, Greg can only deliver to UK addresses, but there are plenty

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