This is a global player original podcast.

Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project, which frankly you should know by now,

was conceived exclusively to let me spend more time than I'd ever get on the radio

with interesting people.

And at this week's guest, well, interesting, as you may already know, and if you don't,

you'll soon discover for a number of reasons.

I speak of Jason Watkins.

Probably better known in, well, depends on what household you're talking about, Jason.

For some people, you'll be, oh, that guy, but in our household you are very much, I don't know, really... You're going to say Mr. Shakespeare,

aren't you? Yeah. Yeah, there you go. How did you know? Well, I just am telopathic.

That's something we can establish today. No, it just, um, it just goes round around in a, in a ring every...

But it shouldn't, because I thought you were extraordinary in the lost honour of Christopher

Jeffries, which we will talk about.

I mean, truly extraordinary.

And it was a career-changing moment for you.

And, of course, I had to take notes, which I never do, just to get the character names,

correct.

But Simon Harwood in W-1A, Gavin Strong in Trolley, there's a million things you've done

that I loved, but yes, Gordon Shakespeare was the one that made my children excited.

I'm a sort of cult in those. A cult in the nursery. I mean, no, it's just, each generation, you know, within a family or, you know, sort of they all watch it.

And, you know, they sort of bribe their younger children to watch it at Christmas.

And it just goes round and round.

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