Hello! Hello. Hi, I'm Kelly Harlock and I'm Sasha Kelly and you're listening to

ugh the final episode of that classical podcast guys holding your tears. We'll save them for later

Okay Kelly I've got such a large box of tissues next to me ready

Oh my goodness me too. Very emotional journey. But right off the

bat we want to say that we announced this week on social media that we'd be

ending the podcast and we have been absolutely

overwhelmed by all your messages. They have just been so lovely, so genuine, so many stories about discovering the

podcast and being on the journey with us and but also so many really

understanding messages of you know really understanding that sometimes in life it is time to as

Andrea Bachelli says say goodbye But the big question that keeps coming through is why so

Kelly do you want to wrap it up for us as Annie Lennox wants us. Yeah, you know what, ladies and gents,

lads and lassies as I traditionally say.

I'll level with you, Chris and I,

big Chris Mann and I started this when we were like 25 years old, bright young things,

because there was nothing out there. There were no kind of, I want to say fun classical

podcast for like a younger, less familiar audience.

And all we wanted to do, we wanted to make people laugh.

We wanted to make people learn a bit and just give classical

music a chance.

And five years later, I just feel, and obviously with Sasha's help as well we've just we've accomplished that and obviously there's a world of classical music still left to explore and we have loved you know we could very we could continue and we would love to continue, but I just feel like we did what we came to do, we've loved every minute and we just kind of want to leave it there and leave it on a high and you know leave you guys to explore

on your own terms and with our help we'll always all of our content will will stay there

so we'll be there whenever you need us but I don't know that's

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