Hello and welcome to Series 3 episode 18 of Out with Susie Ruffle.

Hello, how are you doing? I hope that you're having a good week.

I've had a pretty good week, I've been working, which has been a lot of fun.

Yeah, just being out in the world in the way that we can now, which has been really exciting to get back to work and to get back to life in a way I've been

seeing some more friends and I hope that you've all had the opportunity to do that

too or if you're shielding I hope that you've managed to find some good TV that you didn't

know existed and that you're having a really good binge on a box set.

I've got another brilliant episode for you this week. Thank you, first of all.

So many people got in touch

after Michelle Hardwick's episode last week.

I loved that conversation.

And I think potentially that episode

has opened me up to some new listeners, maybe some people that are really

into soaps and love Michelle's work that maybe are coming to listen to the

podcast as allies or as queer people that didn't know existed. So hello to you as well if you're new to the show.

I hope that you really enjoy the time that you spend with us here on out.

Lots of messages so thank you for all of those loads of tweets and Instagram messages and emails and I just appreciate it so much

I've had some new comments on the iTunes app which is super helpful so if you do have time to rate and

review that is always massively appreciated. Okay I'm going to share three

emails this week because why not I'm going to share some emails from our

wonderful wonderful listeners and then I've got a fantastic episode with Lottie Jeff's and

Stue Oakley who host a podcast called Some Families, which is a brilliant

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