I'm David Suchay and this is Blood Ties.

Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Olly Wansall, but sadly I'm still not with my father Geoffrey Wansall,

but he will be here today to present Blood Ties to you. He's doing an amazing job and doing an episode about Poisoner.

You all know how I feel about Poisoners, so that's disappointing.

We're still in the throes of coronavirus and we're still separated.

But we have plans to keep bringing you podcasts, a few variations and new things to look forward to,

and then a new season starting at the end of the month.

So please keep listening, and here's Geoffrey.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast.

A rather unusual one, because in fact, Molly and I aren't in the same room together.

She's self-isolating and I'm self-isolating in two different places.

So it's a slightly odd conversation at the moment,

which we hope we're going to be able to replicate on video very soon.

But that's another step.

But for the moment, I'm recording the majority of the

podcast on my own and Molly's topping and tailing it by giving you the introductions and

thanking all the many people who've helped us create it and audio boom who sent it out there

for us it is a it's a strange sort of time, especially for me, because I've been having lunch with my daughter every Saturday, as you all know, for many years.

And it's always a little strange, not seeing her.

She's being very disciplined about it and really not going out at all. I'm

not quite, but almost. And she can fortunately work from home. And so do I. I've been working from home since about 1975.

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