Hello, I'm currently out of office.

An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break.

So, I've gone to Barbados for a month for science.

Yours, Toby.

Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday.

Atul protected.

This is a Global Player Original podcast. Well, good afternoon, pop pickers, welcome to Capital Radio in Liverpool.

We are in the Capitol Radio Studios opposite the Albert Dockck and I kind of want to play some music

but there's nothing here to allow us to do so unfortunately. We would have recorded this

in the conference centre because obviously the Labour Party conference is taking place in Liverpool

at the moment but the news bunnies have commandeered the stand so we've been shunted off to Capitol Radio where my guest and I have got soaked.

I know people hate me using the word moist, but I am moist.

And it's probably not going to, I remember when I do do the show tonight,

I'm not going to get anywhere near the guest, Corey, because I think they might object to the smell, to be honest.

Now, let me introduce you to our guest for today.

It is the woman who I will always call Dame, but is now a baroness.

It's Baroness Margaret Hodge.

How the devil are you?

I'm fine and I'm Margaret Hodge, really. Yeah, I know you right. I know.

The advantage of being a dame, this was really interesting, this was that you got called earlier.

Oh, is that right? Yeah, so it puts you up the pecking order and you were called in the House of Commons, I'm still, I'm really new to being a baroness.

And the only good thing is that, as I think I've said to you before,

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