Hello, my fan is friends. Welcome to more Richard Herring podcasts. Please keep listening. Please tell your friends. Please come and see us live. We're back at the Leicester Square Theatre from February 3rd where my guest will be Dave Gorman. March the 24th, my guest will be Paul Whitehouse. There's two other Leicester Square gigs and I'm also at the Lester Comedy Festival

on the 15th of February talking to John Robertson and the Donald Brothers who created Viz.

Please come along if you can. Richard Herring.com slash for Hollister Per and my stand-up tour,

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And hopefully we'll hit some big names,

but we'll definitely hit some interesting names. Anyway sit back relax and enjoy this previously recorded episode of Rahalasta.

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Listen to it.

Hello and welcome to another Rahalisterberg book club.

I've been reading The Pete Show by Kate Somerscale. I'm delighted to be joined with her now.

How are you doing, Kate? I'm doing very well. Thank you.

Lovely. Love to have you. For people who may not have been aware of you before, you've written a raft of

books, I have to say, a lot of fantastic books. How did you start out? It's quite an interesting

story how you started out as an author. Oh, my first book, which was called the Queen of Well

Key, grew out of an obituary. I wrote for the Daily Telegraph Obituary's desk where I worked in the 1990s.

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