Good morning. It is three minutes after ten and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

I hope this doesn't come as a shock to anybody. I hope you haven't tuned in by accident or anything like that.

That would be awkward. I couldn't quite put my finger on what was bothering me yesterday.

And I worked it out only about 10 minutes ago. So we're going to dive straight into this topic with little or no

preparation, plus a change. And I'm going to warn you in advance, I may get a bit emotional,

oddly. So I teased, but not Barry Bethel. Okay, start off a 10. Who was Barry Beth? Anybody

showing your age? What was it called?

The thing that Barry Bethel used to advertise on the telly? Does it sit-bang? Was it? What was Barry Scott? Who's Barry Bethel? I hope I haven't sort of just accidentally remembered the name. Anyway, Baron Bethel. Barron Bethel, not, I wonder if his mates call him Barry. if you if if you mates with the baron, can you shorten it to about, but, so I teased him a bit yesterday for doing a Clarkson. And then, of course, later in the day, Clarkson did a Clarkson. Claiming that because you didn't do very well in your A-levels, you don't need to worry worry because this hereditary peer in the House of Lords,

he actually wrote these words. Getting bad A-levels taught him how to hustle. I think that's beautiful.

I mean, such a perfect illustration of utterly, utterly unconscious privilege. And then Clarkson comes

along whose parents had made millions. Do you know how they made their money, flog um paddington bear dolls it's actually a really lovely story he tells it very charmingly

but my first home was on a field border it well i didn't live in a field i lived in a bungalow

but the bungalow was bordering a field owned by the Clarksons i think in a little village outside

Doncaster called Berg Wallace was his dad the local doctor or something like that? But anyway, they just came up with this idea. Jeremy Clarkson's mum started making Paddington Bear Dolls from scratch. One year, I think they bought, I think they bought the entire output of small-sized Dunlop-Wellington boot. Have you heard this story? I'm pretty sure

he tells it as well. You know, what colour boots does Paddington wear red boots? Little red boots.

I think that the dolls proved so popular. Yellow boots maybe, maybe, anyway, whatever.

They're not, I don't think they're black. That it proves so popular the Paddington Bear doll, unexpectedly,

that they ended up buying the entire, entire stock of whatever color boots, Paddington

wears from Dunlop, I think, with a manufacturer.

Slim fast.

Slim, it's all gone a bit stream of consciousness.

It's all gone a bit stream of consciousness this morning.

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