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Standard Issue for all women. Oh hello there, Mickey here. I hope you're doing all right. If not

better than that, the giddy heights of fine, perhaps. Oh, stop me, I'm dizzy. Anyway,

welcome to this week's Sunday Chops, which was a joy to record, as I got to have a

natter with award-winning actor, Raky Ayola, who you'll have seen in a whole bunch of wide-ranging

stuff on the tally, from Black Mirror, to EastEnders, to Dr Who, to Hobby City, to Anthony,

which was the BBC film about the racist killing of Anthony Walker, in which Raky beautifully

played Anthony's mum G. Or you may have seen her at the theatre in the Curious Incident of the

Dog in the Night Time, or as Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Curse of Child,

or in her award-winning turn, as known in on-bearage at the Royal Court. She's been around a lot

is what I'm saying. As of tomorrow, Monday the 17th of May, you can catch Raky as DS Holland in

Little Doors new series for BBC Wales, The Packed, a tense, gripping thriller about a mysterious

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