This is the BBC.

Dear brothers and sisters, all are welcome here at the Confessions Podcast,

whether Saint or sinner.

Hello and welcome it's another Confessions Podcast from your friends at the BBC,

specifically Radio 2, where the sinful members of the public come to tell their tales of

deceit, debauchery and deception which you'll have got used to over the years.

Anyway, forgiveness is being sought from, I'm not saying Madam Joe,

you're everywhere. Just come here Joe. I'll just call you Joe and see

the Bobby. So that's the line up as is. Obviously it's lovely to be here.

As it always is, this week's Confession Collection includes

Cursts' Simple Story, where the streets have no shame.

Brian's confession, do you remember the nurse time and Tom's, Tom Fowlery,

in rage against the machine gunner, plus a classic confession from the crypts that you've

requested that features a crossbow. But we start with this week's podcast,

Box Confession, Author Don'tist.

Please be seated. Father Simon and the Angulous Bells.

Oh what? That's you guys. Okay, okay.

The Hay Literary Festival came to a close at the weekend, which has reminded me it's time to

fess up to a faux pas at a previous hay festival several years ago. Although an avid reader,

I'm very much a non-fiction person. It's my wife who is the literature monster,

and every year she drags me along to the hay festival. I don't mind really,

because it's good fun to celeb watch. While we have an annual ritual at the festival,

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