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Hello and welcome to full disclosure, a podcast project designed to let me spend more time with interesting people than I would ever get on the radio show.

I've introduced a few people over the years as needing no introduction,

and I'm not saying that David Jason is the most worthy recipient of that description yet,

but Sir David, you're probably in the top one.

Well, thank you. That's a nice way of putting it, thank you.

You're very welcome.

We'll begin at the beginning, I think, but partly because the new book, this time next year, a life of positive thinking goes to places that perhaps even some of your most committed fans may not have visited with you before. But also because, well, it struck me that you've lived, it's not just the career that has spanned an extraordinary period of British history.

It's your life.

And in some ways, the years before your career started, at least as interesting as the years after your career got underway. So we begin in North London in 1940, sort of World War II in its full pomp.

That's right.

I don't obviously remember too much of that,

but my mother told me afterwards.

And there was,

we were in North London,

which is still quite a push for the Germans

who were coming around bombing central London, but occasionally they would

overstep the mark and we had bombs falling around us. And one of the things I just, it's imprinted

on my mind that my mother told me I would have been four or five years old and we were in a Anderson shelter

in the front room of our little house and the bombs were falling and I said to apparently this

as I said my mother told me I said got very nervous and frightened and my mother said said to me, don't worry, it's all right.

It's only God moving his furniture about.

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