Hello and welcome to Bath for our live podcast at the Bath Festival and we even have a live,

well I think they're alive, a live audience with us Jackie. Now this is actually the first time

we've been in the same room recording the podcast together, isn't it? It is because usually I'm

sitting in my front room, you're sitting in your house. You are very honoured, actually, audience today because we are fully dressed. On occasions, we have been in our pyjamas, or Ian tells me even worse. And that's not a picture you're going to get out of your head very easily during the course. Have you been to Bath before?'ve been once before but i think i will come again

because we had a lovely evening yesterday we did we went to the crystal palace restaurant which if any of you

from bath do go to it's one of the best meals i've had this year now lots of famous people are from

bath jackie um anne wittickham is from bath and i used to do a theatre tour a night with anne woodicum

and we used to do it sort of a hundred night with Anne Woodicum. And we used to do

100 theatres around the country. In fact, we came to Bath, and it was just a sort of in conversation.

And I remember the first time I ever appeared on any questions, I was very, very nervous.

And Jonathan Dimbleby announced that I used to do this theatre tour. And he just looked

to me and he said

Ian is it a whole night and I just said a gentleman never tells as we were sitting in the

green room just waiting for this before Ian said to me oh I haven't felt like this since I was with

Anne Whitcomb so what it is about me that reminds him of Anne Whittickham I am unclear. But anyway. Well, let me tell everyone what we're going to talk about in the podcast today. I think we have to start with the Royal Wedding, don't we? We'll look at some of the issues that that threw up yesterday. We'll talk about the new periods that were announced on Friday, a good day to very bad news, maybe. John Burko, has he got a future of Speaker of the

House of Commons, and we might touch on a bit about Brexit and Carillion, and we'll take your questions

from our live audience here in Bath. They've even got nice little forms to fill in. Jackie's actually

created these herself. You'd never guess that she used to be a teacher, would you?

Well, all that coming up in the next 50 minute. So the royal wedding. Now, I'm not sure whether you're particularly a royalist or not. I can imagine a lot of you in your ilk sitting watching television,

slightly tutting. No, I'm not a particular royalist.

If I was designing our constitution today,

I would not start with an unelected,

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