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Good morning, everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast for today. It's Monday the 8th of February.

I told you we're rocketing through. And still no snow to speak of in London. You know, it's sort of a little bit.

Then it went to water like a little puddle.

And then after that we got some more. And then, of course, it just doesn't settle, does it?

But it is cold out there this morning. I warn you now, get your hands into some warm mittens or

stick them in your coat pockets and turn the collar up and put a scarf on. I'm always amazed at how many people get off the trains with no scarves on.

Nothing like that at all. I mean, I'm, seriously, I spend most of my life in a scarf,

which is quite nice. We kick off with old Vic Beckham, the one whose fashion empire is not doing very well. She took home more cash from music than her fashion empire last year,

despite not touring with the Spice Girls. So her umbrella firm, so she's got something called Moody Productions, brought in 3.3 million

in the last tax year, while her fashion firm was set with pre-tax losses of 16.6 million.

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