Katie Bolter.

Oh wow.

Tennis is full of noise.

Pressure.

Manifest.

Intensity.

But what really makes me feel alive?

It's the focus in that quiet.

A moment to breathe.

To reset.

To hydrate.

That's what really makes me feel alive.

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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Friday, August the 26th. What's good about Friday? Um, nothing. It's the weekend. Oh, the Redding Pop Festival. Did you see the pictures?

The pictures today in the paper. All these poor drowned little rats with all their little tents and their Wellington boots. Every time they're... And why don't they move the date? Because every time they have the Reading Festival, the heavens open, and they all get absolutely drenched. And so these poor little lovies who are said because they're all terribly terribly upmarket.

You don't find anybody working class going to the Reading Festival.

Not a 260 quitter ticket.

You know, it can only appeal to the Lavinia's and Sebastian's and people like that and Dexter and things like that.

But you won't find anybody from sort of anywhere north of the border.

Even if they've got the same one on at Leeds.

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