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Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project conceived entirely to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio with interesting people. James

Remakes, welcome. Thank you very much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. Shepard and writer,

it says at the top of my notes. That's the first, I think. That never appeared on anybody's sort of

careers advice at school, I can tell you. Your career's advice said, Zookeeper. That's the only way

they could work out how somebody would work outside in the 1990s. Is that what happened? You kind of told them what you liked and they put it through

the algorithm and it came out with Zookeeper. It literally came out with Zookeeper and the reason

I repeated that in a book about growing up as a farmer's son was it seemed to me to say something

hilarious about how limited that computer program or that

world was about my people.

Mine said DJ actually, would you believe?

But as in touring the village halls of Worcestershire playing AHA and Juran Duran records on Saturday

night.

So a similar experience.

For people who don't know, you're more writer than shepherd in the eyes of the British public,

but it is at least to start with about life on your family's farm where you have been for over 600 years.

It's quite nice notes, this, over 600 years and just over 600 sheep.

Yeah, that's right.

And the cool thing about the 600 years is that's as old as the church books are, basically, in the archives.

So it probably goes back further.

Well, like on page one, the Reebok's baby was born or the Reebok's old guy died or whatever.

So who knows how much further back it goes than that, but maybe a very long time and and your books the shepherd's life english pastoral and latterly the place of tides which will work our way towards throughout this

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