Hello everyone and here thanks for tuning into this special episode about listed which was recorded a couple of weeks ago at the end of the road festival

Endorse it. We had a fantastic time at the festival and this episode is about a book that we love

Alberton by Adam Thorpe. We had a terrific guest Tom Cox, a really great audience and

we had a brilliant time. The only thing that slightly went wrong

is we had a few gremlins in the recording.

So when you listen to this, it probably

doesn't achieve our normal high standards of fidelity.

But on the other hand, it's quite a rock and roll venue

and there's some rock and roll in this episode.

So maybe you could think of this as like Volume 1

of the Batlisted Bootleg series and so we hope it doesn't affect your ears too badly.

For those of you who weren't at the live recording at the end of the road festival. You'd have missed

out on the most remarkable pair of trousers I think I've seen for a long time that

Tom Cox was wearing, they were flared, quite heavily flared and were made out of some strange yellow and grey embroidered fabric.

Very, very stylish, which is really just a way of introducing each course to our esteemed sponsor Spoke, also renowned for their stylish,

well cut trousers. Spoke are a smart online menswear company. They design men's trousers and now shorts and polo shirts as well

with a difference.

They fit you rather than the other way round.

In fact, with their online fitfinder,

you just enter a few simple details

and under a minute you'll have the perfect

fit. You can choose from almost 200 size combinations and they obsess over every detail,

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