Hello, Podities. Does that work? Pod lovers, Podities? It was the top of my head. It's, uh, needs a bit more work. Tracy Ann Oberman and I, for it is she, go back some distance. And in the course of this conversation, you'll hear us suddenly remember things that we were in together that we'd forgotten all about.

Oh Lord, she's a wonderful guest.

The highest accolade I give my guests is that they give good guests.

And Tracy Ann is up at the top of that tree.

I'll be interested when I hear this back to see what we've edited out. Some of it

was quite contentious. We shall see. She's about to go on tour playing a female Shylock in the

Merchant of Venice, 1936, starting at the Royal Shakespeare Company and then going around the country.

You'll know her from, well, maybe EastEnders, Toast of London, so many great, great shows.

Friday night dinner, I mean, the list goes on. I loved talking to her. She was once the Marion to Mike Keith in a Marion

and Jeff special. Yes, she was. Sit back, relax. It's Bryden and Tracy Ann Oberman.

Hello, I'm talking to Tracy Ann Oberman. Now, we go back quite a way. We've not been in each other's

pockets over the years. It's fair to say. We're not intimate, no. No, no, no. But enough that we could talk

if we met. I don't rule it out. But can you say that in 2023, even as a joke? What? Don't rule it out. You said we've not been intimate. I said don't rule it out. I was being flirtatious. I was being flirtatious. I think you can say it. Yeah. Hang, I'm just going to just call the day. Oh, no. You can say that we were. I don't, were we intimate? No, I know. No, say that we were... Were we intimate?

No, I know.

No, of course we really weren't. Were we intimate? No. Rule it out. I love it. No, we were never intimate. No. No, we've worked together a few times, though. Yeah. But as you get older, it's possible to forget people that you've had a little moment with. I mean, half the time you were married to someone.

You know what I mean?

You think, oh my God, of course we went out together for seven years. And I had completely forgotten who you were, that kind of vibe. Yeah, I wouldn't go that far. Really? Someone you may have just kissed somewhere once, which we never did. Can you cut some of this out? Oh, okay. You can. So, Tracy Ann Oberman, obviously. Actress. Where do you stand on that? Love it. You prefer actor? I reclaim actress, Rob, because Dorothy Parker said, Scratch an actor and you get an actress. So, in my opinion, everyone is an actress. I've never heard that. Yeah? Scratch an actor when you get an actress. everyone in my opinion, everyone is an actress. I've never heard that.

I love that. I love that.

When you get an actress, everyone's an actress. All right. Okay, good. Um, uh, activist.

Yes. Yes. Yes. An act tovist. Yes. That's a yes, I do. But not an actuary.

No. I've never understood what an actuary. No.

I've never understood what an actuary.

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