With so many holiday homes on booking.com, there are so many Tina Faye's I could be.

I could book a beach house and be relaxed, Tina.

Could someone bring me everything, thank you?

I could book a ski cabin and be sporty, Tina.

I'm going to skip the black diamond and do the hot chocolate run.

Or maybe I'll book a villa in Italy and be Vespa Tina.

Do I look cool on it? Because I feel cool.

With so many holiday homes, you can book whoever you want to be.

Booking.com, booking. Yeah.

This is a global player original podcast.

Yeah. Global Player Original Podcast. Hello and welcome to Full Disclosure, a podcast project that was conceived entirely to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio.

And this week's episode is a bit different. For at least two reasons,

Brianie Gordon. The first is that the art of the interview is often designed to glean information

that may not have been previously available and yet your canon of work is an extraordinary

confessional account of your own life and time. So I don't imagine that you've

left much in the locker for me to discover today. Some. And the second is that of all the full

disclosure guests I've ever had, I think I've known you for the longest, albeit that we kind of

knew each other 20 odd years ago and haven't seen much of each other since.

It was 25 years ago. Was it? A very long time. Yes. But I remember you. You were the one of the first

people I met in journalism. Yes. And you were very kind. Oh, that's a relief. And I, I've,

you and your wife, I've always felt very fondly.

Well, that's good to know because some of the stuff that you wrote about perhaps in your first book,

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