What you do every day is a writer, you have bad ideas. That is actually the living. You have bad ideas because you know that you'll get good ones.

That there'll be a piece of gold in all that coal. To me it has to be what if any skill I had, I think it's delusion.

Welcome back to Working. I'm your host, Isaac Butler. And I'm your other host, June Thomas. Hey, June, whose voice did we hear extolling the virtues of bad ideas at the beginning of the episode this week?

Well, Isaac, that was sub-penu, who is the creator of Mrs. Siddhu Investigates, a cozy British mystery currently airing in the US on Acorn TV.

So can you tell us a little bit about Mrs. Siddhu Investigates for people who haven't seen it yet?

So the main thing you need to know is that the titular character is an Indian auntie. That is a mild mannered middle-aged lady who likes to help solve problems for the people in her life.

She's Miss Marple. If Miss Marple were a 60-something Sikh widow with a lovable goofball of a not quite grown-up son and endless reserves of empathy.

She's a caterer, which turns out to be a fantastic way of getting her into a lot of different workplaces and settings.

Actually, let's listen to a clip from the show to get a sense of its emotional warmth.

We'll hear the great Mira Sayal as Mrs. Siddhu and Gerjit Singh as her son, Tez.

It is. What is the biggest fear of your life?

Aliens. Not alien invasion, but literally the film aliens will be rebooted by a second-rate director.

I think the biggest fear of anyone's life is not being seen and not being loved.

Rani needs me now and I have to go.

What about all the food?

It's really done. You just turn the oven off in 10 minutes and turn the bodies in the fryer in two.

I can't do all that without a recipe.

Yes, you got this. I see you. And I love you.

Go on!

Amazing. So do our Slate Plus members get a little bit extra under the tree this week?

Indeed they do. I asked Suk to tell me about his favorite TV mystery series and his answer was surprisingly revealing.

Amazing. You've planted a little mystery in our heads that we need to have solved.

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