Hello and welcome to the very first, not another one of 2026.

Hey!

Doesn't the time fly? I'm Miranda Green and I am back in our Soho Radio studio this afternoon with both Tim Montgomery.

Hello Tim. Hello. And Ian Martin. Hello, Ian. Hello. But Steve, you're down the line today because you couldn't come back to the sauna, the small box that looks like a sauna that we love so well because you're so busy. You never stop.

I would love to be in a sauna. I'm in a very, very cold room with my coat on, trying to finish a book in the next few days.

So I'm afraid I couldn't make it to the sauna.

Oh my goodness. Is this a bit like kind of Collette, whose husband used to lock her in a room until she finished the latest money spinner novel?

Somebody locked you in this cold room until you finish. Yeah, yeah. I've often been compared to Collette.

This is only the latest example.

Impressive. Did you stop at all for Christmas, Steve?

Yeah, yeah. We had a fantastic time. As well as Christmas, my son got married twice, sort of, you know, the legal thing and then a huge party in Chefiel.

I was about to say that doesn't sound very legal.

I'm going to get married twice in this country.

You have to do it legally and then, you know, there's then a, and then my daughter

presided over the ceremony in Sheffield and then one rot the night away.

So it's been non-stop parties to the extent that I don't want to go to another party for about

250 years, but it was great fun. Did you all have a good time? Oh yeah, Ian, I've followed your

wine list to the letter. Oh wow. It was as good as the year before, especially the magnum

that you recommended. Oh, brilliant. So you managed to get

one because, but I'd recommended it, then the episode went out and then it sold out. I know. I know.

I don't think there was a connection, but we do have dedicated listeners, but well, they're also

listeners of taste. So maybe it was a reflection. Yeah, that's right. The discerning listeners

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