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.

Thank you. a global player original podcast. Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project, which, as you will know, if you've

listened to a single episode, was conceived entirely to let me spend more time with fascinating

people than I would ever get to do on the radio. I can't believe it's been going since

2019 or that we have interviewed over 150 different people from show business, politics, musicians and authors.

And I, there's not a single, actually, there is one that I don't think went very well, but I'm never going to tell you which one it was.

And I hate it when I reveal that because you start sending me your suggestions for which one you think it was that didn't go very well.

And I'm like, well, that one went brilliantly. What are you you talking about but there was one that I thought could have gone could have gone slightly

better the the one I'm sharing with you this week categorically didn't because we've been having a

look back at some of the older episode some of my favorite guests so this week we've we've reached

into the vault and plucked out one that really stands out for me,

not least because Steve Coogan is such a private individual for someone who is so incredibly

well known and has been written about so much, often from quite an unpleasant perspective by

the tabloid media. He doesn't do interviews. I'd waited 25 years to get this one. So when it happened in 2019,

I was both incredibly nervous and incredibly excited. And as with one exception, as full disclosure

always does, the encounter lived up to my expectations. He talks a lot about his early life.

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