Hello and welcome to We Are History.

I'm John O'Farrell and I'm Angela Barnes.

Celebrated TV comic Angela and I will be talking today about what you're laughing for.

It just seemed so sarcastic.

Oh, you're famous.

I am not.

You've got more Twitter followers than me.

That's not really how we measure these things.

Somebody said to me the other day, oh, I recognise you from somewhere.

And it took ages for me to go, oh, I used to be on telly about 10 years ago every

now that's really embarrassing anyway enough of that but you must get recognized all the time do you

Angela I get it a bit occasionally mostly people go I know you from somewhere and that's awkward

because then you go well it might be that you know me from the telly, but it also might be that we use the same

ASDA. And if I say, have you seen me on telly, I'm going to look like a prick if it's the ASDA one.

You definitely used to work in Swindon social services. No, I really didn't. A lot of people think

they've worked with me. That's a common one. That is. Yeah. Medium of TV is. Yes, doesn't it? Yes. Because movie stars, they always knew it was a movie star, but TV stars, people always thought

they knew them.

Maybe it's because, as well, on Mot the Week, I'm sat behind a desk.

Ah, so you've...

People used to see me sat at a desk.

They think you're a receptionist, is what you're saying.

Yeah, that's favourite area. So she chose this one. But it's a Cold War with a difference. I think it's very interesting how sort of totalitarian regimes or countries in great competition look for status symbols and ways to prove that their system is the best. So with all the corruption in the Olympics and the drugs that the East Germans had and all the different ways of bigger statues or bigger monuments. But Angela's picked out a very interesting

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