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for the price of 11. Terms apply. Hello and welcome to a very special one-off, Neverstrays for Edition, in which three people, well two other people

and me, both of whom I know extremely well, discuss, go down a rabbit hole about one year and one year only.

I won't give it away just yet what that year is although obviously if you've seen the title of this

episode I have given it away so that was done with the usual

never strays far levels of competence but I do hope you enjoyed this chat as much as we

enjoyed recording it. It will become instantly apparent who those three people are and

what the year in question is and why we're talking, but I will let the host of the discussion introduce it nonetheless and he is none other than the man

who has very kindly over the years written not just the theme music that you've just heard,

but this very podcasty and rather smooth little bit of introductory music

before this one-off podcast I do hope you enjoyed.

Oh by the way that man is peradir upguineth. Hello my name is Perere Rop Gunne and I'm here with Mr Ned Bol, and we're here to talk about the Roadbook Blue Series.

There's a New Year, so Ned, the Blue Series for the Roadbook.

Yeah, what's it all about me?

What's it all about Alfie?

Well, this is the second edition.

This is the second blue book that we've produced after 1989,

which was our first blue book.

The blue book series is our attempt, our foray into the past.

The red book, which is obviously the kind of defining thing about the road book, started in 2018, because we had to start somewhere in human history

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