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Morning, everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today.

Top of the list, it has to be Linda Bellingham.

It's her funeral.

There will be joy, there will be laughter, there will be a lot of tears,

because that's what happens at funerals if you know somebody.

And the good and the great will be down there.

Biggins will be there.

Jane McDonald, Maureen Lippman, Nicholas Grace, plus a lot of the loose women.

And they've all vowed to give her, I think, one final show.

And that's a sad thing.

When you know somebody and you know them from the television

it is sad when anybody goes and i think they're all going to do something they'll all be you know

there will be tears there will be tears because she was just a lovely person so i hope that for

her and the family and the children's sake everything everything goes really well. I'm sure it will.

I've said it a million times before. When she was asked by Colleen, how she wanted to be remembered,

the mum of two said, just as an honest person, we've been through this as loose women. You can't do loose women unless you're honest.

You can't hide anything. It really is honest when we answer questions.

See, that's what radio is. I've always explained that. That's what radio is, because if you're not

honest on radio, people suss you out. And if you don't sound genuine, and if you don't sound

as though you actually believe what you're saying, So I believe everything I say, absolutely everything. Might upset one or two people, but, to be honest with it, I couldn't really care less.

I'm really not bothered about that. If honesty is the best policy and telling the truth is the

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