Poetry Requests and GCSE Studies

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If you want talk about sonnets a haiku , it's a free verse of ballots. If you've ever been given someone else's a war trophy, then you should message 07 4 574177689 Sorry, um I like to add a bit nowadays. Sorry, Ruth . So hello Ruth. It was just boasting about his four number ones before we started I know. Well I'm on I'm on all Brad Actually I don't I never remember what number one number two. Okay, I should well I should have said I've just had a yard of veil for breakfast. There was a time, darling. I hope that's not happened. So um Ruth um I all has already embarrassed me considerably. Why? By saying uh I said well anyway, it's great to meet you, Ruth. And Ruth said we had met before. And I thought, oh but this will be like twenty years ago, give me a break. It was like um It was a few months ago. It was just a few months. When was it? What happened? Why don't you tell the story, Ruth? Um I went to see Just to give people a chance to get used to your axe. Oh yeah that's it. I'm loving being in the Birmingham sandw We're not from I know you keep telling me I'm sorry. I don't where it's actually from, where you actually So I'm from up the road from George Fouracres, who's born in Willinall. I'm from Darleston, which is in Warsaw. So what can I call you people? Black people . Well we are really black country people, yeah. Okay. So Birmingham people derogatorily call us yam yams. Okay. Well I many years ago wrote a a sitcom set in th that area. Oh is that shame? Called Blue Heaven. Oh Blue Heaven. No, it's I ever did. And um the um director who was from London said to me uh right we need to talk about you know the casting and stuff. I said well we should be casting local people 'cause it's about like he said trouble is he said people won't listen if it's all yo yo yo yo yo So uh we have that man was Jacob Reese Morton. Yes. Um can I hear about when you met Ruth and you forgot? Yeah, so I went to see The Lovely Eggs in Birmingham. The Lovely Eggs is my favourite band in all the world. Yeah, and then uh because me and my friend were we know the guy who owns the pub, so he let us stand at the back and then Frank was just next to us and my friend was like, You've got to say all right to Frank because I've seen Blue Heaven. I've probably seen Oh have you. Yeah. I mentioned that to you when I met Y and you said you don't look old enough. Yeah. Well did I? Well, yeah, you don't. You don't look old enough. You look like Elvis is what you look like. Oh no, but we're going to look old enough. The man who tended the bar on the Titanic doesn't look old enough. So seen it. Can you please carry on? I was the stand-up on the Titan ic . I got off dressed as a woman. Do you think you would That's how it started. Do you think you would have escaped the Titanic? I think you would. You're quite canny. You would have found a way off. It depends w at what stage of my life I was on the Titanic. If it had happened, you know, later, I'd have been in the poshby. And I think they got the best lifeboat. Before that I would have uh you would have perished. Perished in the hold. Oh dear. I would have waved to you. I would have waved to you from the boat. Perished in the hold is Hulk Hogan's uh autobiography. Anyway, Rue. So uh I went up to Frank and you know told him how much I loved him and he said it was uncomfortable.. You didn't say that I did, I did. And you said I'm uncomfortable f uh getting all this praise. Well I haven't been comfortable since the sixties. But I told you to get that scene too. I know, but it's it's you know the the thing is with the growth. It literally grows on you. And metaphorically So why did you say that to Ruth? I'm not comfortable. Well you can't remember. I'm not very good with praise, as you know. Yeah no, that's true. But also um, it was I r do remember it. I didn't remember it at first, but when Ruth um went on and on about it, it came through to me and I do remember meeting and she was lovely and I was shocked that someone who looked under seventy um actually like my work a gorgeous young woman you thought that Elvis had died. Exactly here he is at that moment I never thought that never say that again it's been re generated. We should say Ruth does look quite like Elvis. She's got long hair is. Someone told her she one of my so one of my ex-boyfriends and also the comedian Andy Robinson, if you know him, he said I look like Elvis. Oh yeah. He's also fr he's from Birmingham. He's from Birmingham, yeah. We should s uh say that Birmingham is like a city in the West Midlands. Well people know that. People don't know the black country either. Oh, I don't know the black country either. And sometimes the title um makes them uneasy and they think it's some sort of terrible Enoch Powell type remark. And what it actually is is the soot of the Industrial Revolution just made the whole place. Is that right? So um yeah, we were always a bit you know, pretty bear Mingum with we we didn't you know, we we thought they were the big city bright lights. Right. I mean London, they were off the scale. Really? Yeah. But yeah, I d we I only went to Birmingham um once a year with my mum and there was a place called Oaks's, I think, and we used to pi I used to pick some of my uh Christmas presents. What was Oaks's? Was it a department store? It was I think it was a department store, yeah. Oh okay. Long gone. Yeah. Oh it's been replaced with a Dave's Otchicken now. Oh okay . I saw that there was a Please it's hot . That's what I always say. Is Dave's hot chicken is that like a sort of you know when they try and rip off KFC. Yeah, it's that Dave's hot chicken. It's w n it's one of those like um there's loads of these fried chicken places. No, it's a chain though, Dave's hot chicken, I think you got them in in Birmingham. But it was an Ask Italia that's been replaced with a day of sock chicken. Which is always a big ask. Yeah . Yeah. Yeah. Lovely. Um I'm worried because uh Ruth's a comedy writer, she might just be writing these down and rude . Frank, you're so paranoid. I'm I'm less so paranoid. I'll be honest, I'm less aware I'm a bit I think ro comedy writers who don't actually appear you know Batroom Batroom people . I think they are more inclined to say I'm having that. And absolutely not this one. No way. I never say I'm having that. And I love that you think that that's like joke stealing is just the worst thing. I think death penalty for that. Really funny about it. The death I think death penalty for joke stealing and burning her Majesty's shipyards. That's always been my and you know reform reformer on the way. So it might yeah it might just yeah come around . Um No, I would I would never ever steal jokes. Um it's all g it's all gotta be original material. Well done you. Thanks. I mean that's music to Frank's ears. Can I say I read an article the other day about a woman who um is f she's very very lefty woman. I read I read her her column regularly. She's very she's great. And she was on about um reform had gone in and in where a friend of hers lives. Um uh a uh reform had got in and she said, you know, obviously she was terrified, I was terrified. She said, but you know what ? They've got rid of every pothole . And I thought, hmm. Right. This is how it starts. This is how it starts. This is how it starts. Next thing you know make the traits run on time. Yeah. Fill every bottle. Dress dress very nicely. Oh man. It's all good. Well, not in Nigel Faraj's case. I don't think you'd ever be accused of dressing nicely. Speaking of George Fouraker so I do um lovely George I'm gonna say something slightly patronizing, but um somebody said you should get Ruth Hoscoe on the show and I said I don't know who that is, forgive me Ruth. I would have told you. They showed me a clip and I said if this had been audio, I'd have booked her straight up. I didn't say that. No, I said, Oh, I love I'd just be happy to be with that voice for a bit. And I feel the same when when George is on I say George, I don't know really, I've met him once, I think. When George Foura ker is on uh SNL UK, it just it's not when Jude Bellingham is interviewed, it just you know he's from Yeah, yeah. It just gives me that Yeah. Well I'd like to say the same about people from North London, but everybody's North London is in the media. Well also everybody's from North London. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, it's true. Um so on the right in front and we'll then we'll we'll leave you alone for a bit. What this is a question I shouldn't it's is this is what they call a hospital pass in the football world. So don't you don't have to answer this straight off. But um what is there a joke, not mine, that you've heard and thought, Oh god, I wish I'd written there? One that you really love. Oh god, there is, but it's too rude to tell us. Well, maybe. And also I mean any of Norm MacDonald's jokes. Oh yeah. He does it when then he's they aren't really jokes, you know, and he re re-reads them off the card s. Um, yeah, they're probably too offensive to someone. Well, there's one I really love of Norm MacDonald, and uh he's on about lying. Yeah. And he says, uh , so I I lie someone asks me if I've seen a movie and they say, hey, you ever see that film with Meryl Streep and a horse? And I say, yeah. And then I think, what am I lying about over here ? This lie gains mean I think it's really great. He's brilliant. I I asked that 'cause there's a there's an American sitcom that I am obsessed with called Superstore. Yes, Frank loves this. Well no, I'd I'd heard of it, I'd never watched it and then I heard you praising it and I thought I must watch that. Have you tried it yet? Not yet, no. Well I was watching it last night. Uh we both that's all you watch. Don't mention I was on my scene . Which is I watched a bit more superstore last night. He was addictive. Oh, does she like it as well? Me and Buzz and Kath watch it together. It's quite adult for Boz, but it's all right. But last night this was a joke that really made me happy. Um it was like a sort of a um Latino version of a Bemitz for I don't know what the actual term for the festival is . But no one really wanted to go to him. And this the woman was there who works at the superstore, but her husband um it clearly had no intention of going. And she said sorry Bo couldn't come but he's only got two suits and one of them's being cleaned and the other one's haun ted. That's great. It's great. That is great. It's great. I'm so glad you've discovered a nice little show. Thank you, darling We keep getting people sending in. You know that hasn't stopped. So many people, Ruth, have been turned onto Superstore by Frank. I feel a bit coming. When Patrick went into Ireland. I'm I and I'm leaving the snakes. Fuck 'em. I'm too busy. Yeah. More converts by the men. But it is it's spreading the word, I think. Yeah. From startups to global brands, millions of businesses trust Shopify. Sell online, in-store, on Instagram, TikTok, and more, all from one powerful platform. Simple to manage and built to grow with you. Start your free trial on Shopify.be today. That's shopify.be . If you're ready to launch your business or take it to the next level, you're ready for Shopify . So speaking of um strange events, I tell you what I've been quite obsessed with this week and that is the um cop celebration things that have been going on. The open top boss. The buses. I just thought is it still all right? No one ever questioned. No one's ever said, you know that open top boss thing that people is like shit. And we're still doing it just because it's a tradition. Why do we still do it? You're right. It feels a bit unsophisticated, doesn't it? It feels like the the most naff thing anyone could ever do. I mean I'm speaking as a West Bromage Albion fan, so but you know, when we were in the Premier League, our entire target was getting forty points, which usually meant you didn't get relegated. And I said we should do an open top boss. You know those silver balloons you get for birthdays? Just holding up a big four O at the front. Really tragic. I didn't even know West Brom weren't in the Premier League anyway. Did you not? Well I chose not to mention that. I wish now I'd lied about it. You should have. Yeah, I got to do it. But there was um glory. One and a half million people. But I can't glory in a basque. That's what I find. Wow. Too pinching. Well that that's where you're on your own. I just had to throw that in to make sure I wasn't doing any anti-Spanish material. You've got to be so careful these days. Um Frank, one and a half million people were there on those . I mean that's dangerous, isn't it? It developed. I've told you had sort of a ticket. Well it was confusing a ticket for a road to go down a Holloway Road. Yeah. Well what was Did you go? But do you know what? I'd considered going and I was going to go and I wanted to take Ray that's my dog m not my house. You can't take your dog to a Don't tell me what I can do, Frank. You can't. I was gonna put him in a little red arsenal top. I had it all planned. But then I started to Do you have a little red arsenal? Yes, I've got plenty. I get sent. This is what I get sent. I don't get beauty bottles. I don't get sent anymore. I get sent dog clothes. I used I used to love getting sent stuff. Very rare now. Really ? That's the worst thing about being less famous. But where would people send it to? Well they used to send it to the right. I get a thing sent here occasionally. You get nice poetry things. I think the good stuff is taken by the hipsters. Do you think they steal it? Do you think they're stealing my doctors? Oh yeah. I mean when they sent me those really like quite short rolled up trousers. I think they went straight away and the beard wax. Anything to do with dogs they will send you. I've been sent all sorts of clothes for Ray. Anyway. Anyway. I was gonna take him down there and then you know when you start seeing you put on the TV and you start looking at social media and I just thought, no, it's not right for me and my boy. It looked slightly horrible. I should say that Hoscoe is a is a is a a native of the area. Not a native, but you you've moved in. Yeah. Um I live, yeah, next to the Emirates and I could see this is it after they won for a week after it was just people gathering outside the front of the Emirates, setting off red flares, fireworks. We had fireworks last night as well at 10 o'clock, sending all the dogs' crazy. Uh people shouting Arsenal and doing the chant, do you know the Tottenham what do we think of Tottenham chance? And they say all right at the end yeah that that's all right. I don't I don't I won't do the whole thing. It's a swear word. It's swearway, so I'd rather not. Yeah. Right. But I heard that chant you know five hundred times. So I left before the parade started because I saw him putting all the moved out. Yeah. I'll show you if I've reacted . Well this is right so I left for the weekend, came back this weekend two boys' own concerts there. Well that won't be uh there'll be no red flares unless there are You won't get any uh violence with the life is a roller coaster mob. Supported by S Club Seven apparently. I might go to that. There was a time that would have been the dream ticking. And it's at Emirate Stadium. Yeah, Friday and Saturday. But I'm gonna be at and I don't know if you're there, Frank, the fall weekend in Manchester. Are you gonna be uh I'm going to the just a Friday. Oh uh well to see you, I don't get that till the Saturday. What a shame. Oh friend, that's so nice you've got a fall friend. No, I I'm uh there's a weekend of uh the fall and I'm uh festival, the fall festival of yet. It is, and there's some brilliant stuff on. And uh Simon Armitage, the poet laureate, is doing a DJ set. Oh, Stuart Lee might be there. No, he won't be a fall fan, isn't it? He is a big fall fan, yeah. No, I'm I'm host ing the uh I I can't remember what it's called, but it's essentially Four Mastermind . Oh, really? So do you know who's t is it celebrities taking part? It's celebrities in our world. So it's people like Grant Shelby's is taking part who produced a few out um fall albums. Did he change his name? I'm assuming. No, no, that's his that's his name. He's he's uh he's one of the Hemor Hempstead Showbiz. So you decided because I yeah, I felt too much for me the parade, Frank. I mean I did like what I do like is the surreal nature, like people in the houses. Did you see that stuff? Th wasere someone in a flat with a baby and the Arsenal fans all started chanting because the baby would be going, We've got to It wasn't Michael Jackson, was it? I worried it was gonna be a Michael Jackson. He hung Blanca over the um Was it blanketket? Yeah, it was blan. Well we've all hung her a hunger blanket over the handrail over the years. After a after a heavy drinking night. Especially on the holiday. Just to let it steam off a bit . He hung blanket over the rail. Yeah. And a hong blanket sounds like uh you know like a hong jewelry. It's a form of a hong jewelry. Actually, did he have a hong jewelry? Who? Michael Jackson. I don't think he did anything. No, no. We know what happened there. Was it unanimous? There were doves. I know there were doves, but that wasn't part of the legal process. That was someone outside. Yeah. I think they sang that thing about Tottenham as well. Yes, they did. Um So the they had the baby knocked. I was so relieved. I thought, oh my god, did you see that Ruth on social media? I thought they were gonna hang the baby over because uh the Arsenal fans were demanding to see it and they just Why did they whose baby was it? The baby belonged to somebody who lived in a third floor for a while. Oh, it wasn't on the couch. No, no, there was no baby on the couch. I thought a buyer had brought a coat. Because you know they sign them very young nowadays. I thought that was like the Academy style. The Academy coach is like a crash . Imagine if they sat it in the Premier League trophy. They put him in with the X players just so it's No, it was someone in a third floor flat in wherever, Holloway Road or something. And they saw them holding the baby and got very excited and then the entire crowd got angry when they took the baby away from the window. So the whole crowd started singing King Mob. Well King Mob they started saying, We want our baby back, we want our baby back. We want our baby back. So this poor harassed parent kept having to bring the baby to the window. Oh no. Did it have protective ear? No. I didn't see the baby. I saw there was a lost child. They shouted for that as well. They all shouted Adam loudly in the crowd. Whose child is this? Whose child is this? See I went when Albion won the FA Cup in nineteen sixty-eight. Ador able. I went that day last major trophy . I went I went to the um open top. Then it was still a a relatively you know, it felt okay. Now it I just think it feels a bit naff now. Do you? Yeah. I also think they should have made them go in a single decker because they only won the one trophy . How dare you? But anyway, I it was dangerous. I mean m I think people are a bit more careful now with uh but I I don't mean like just getting, you know, beaten up and mogged and stuff. Which happens at every loud every gathering of people. But it was just there was times when I was crushed. I was on the eleven . Yeah, that's worries me a bit. And I spoke to someone who went to the Arsenal one and he said when they went past me there was so much red smoke, I couldn't see the players or the trope. Really? Oh that's such a shame, isn't it? You go all the way down there. Like when you fly over Uhu is it Uhuru , is that the right name for Air's Rock nowadays? Absolutely right, Frank. Yeah. Um I was worried I might be on about that, the woman from uh Star Trek . But when when you fly over her, it's still something to see. Something to behold. But um sometimes you fly over it's completely cloud But it was um Yeah, I thought it was 'cause Viller had one as well in Birmingham. Oh did they did they? No, I don't know if Arsenal did the that Villa won the Europa Cup. Uh and Let's not talk about Europe. So they had three coaches. How many did Arsenal have? Did they just We I th I think there would I think there were three. So it said Viller had three coaches. The first one was the media. And I thought they get the first coach. That's outrageous. Um what about the s I thought what about the uh the true important people, the sponsors? Hang on, who wants to see Dan Wootton from the Sun on a coach? I haven't got or slept all the way down to Holloway Road and bought a ticket to see Dan Woodon. And I thought were they waving themselves, the media? People, hey, we love the uh we love the media. Med ia , media , media . We want the med ia. What were they doing? Were they just like filming backwards at the players? They shouldn't have been given that level of access though. I would have been livid, would you? Load of old journos on a bus. Who cares about them? Do you remember the Queen's Platinum uh celebration when they had all those Platty Jews? The Platty Jews. That's what Kyle Smith Wino coined. You know he made that up. Really? The Platty Jews? Who did? Um the guy who's in Ghosts who I adore. Oh right. Anyway. He made up Platty Juke. Yes. He's trademarked it. Anyway, back to Frank. I work with a guy called Dan Atkinson, who's a producer, and he invented um Wagatha Christie. Did he really? Really, that's a good one. Did he get anything out of it? What's your big um culture changing invented phrase? Yeah, Ruth. Well I invented the Platinum Q Belie when the Q was going on. After the Platinum Jubilee, I invented the Platinum Cuba. Oh you know what? I'll settle for that. Yeah, yeah. That's quite good. Might even be better than Platty Jubes. I've done so oh yeah, when it when uh Rishi terrible thing about the queue by the way. Do you know they found the Duke of Eddin rub about five hundred back he didn't know he he had straight access. Oh my god, right. Sorry, when they did um sorry when Rishi Sunak talked about us all having to do national service, I coined Nashi Serve. Oh I know. Wow. Did you like it? really but uh someone does it on my behalf. But I do like J Lo. I like the idea of being able to drop a topical joke like that when you feel like it. Yeah I was happy with platinum Platinum Cubile I thought was quite good. Yes. Anyway, so they had coaches for the for the Cubilee . Um in that uh it each one represented a decade. Right. And uh and I thought I don't want to be on the fucking nineties coach like to rem like I'm preserved in Asp . The nineties as well, was it so depressed? Be decorated in nineties theme. Um I think that was that was the idea. Yeah. So like Ben Sherman shirt. Mr Blobby. with like a big aerial stick it out the front . But was you on the nineties case? No I didn't do it. No, okay. Fuck am I say. Oh I've just seen it. Also I think they said to me, oh we want you to be on the uh zeros what if is it the naughties right the noughties and I thought that that's that was my decline what am I facing backwards on that? I'm not going on that and then I saw on the thing it looked terrible. I was so glad. You know when you see some of you think, Oh god, I'm glad I didn't go to that. So I've done it. And they interviewed um who's the gardener who people like show on Alantic Marsh. Alan Titchmarsh. They interviewed him and he was on something like the sixties coach and he said Yeah, but the thing is I I shouldn't be on this I shouldn't be on this and I thought, Oh no, it's it's all been done very randomly, but he went anyway. I thought fuck that. But he Alan went in good, you know, royal loyalty. Yeah. And he was trapped on the six with a load of octogenarians. So I watched it for a bit ' Icause thought I'd love to see I'd love to see him attempt to leap from one b bus to another . Oh his nitwear billowing 'cause he like you know those flying you know those um those uh creatures that stretch out their arms. Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I can't remember what they mean. That's what I imagine he could do with his knee . But wouldn't that be awful if you ended up. I'd leave, I'd clamber down the bus. If I got put on a bus with like 80-year-olds, how embarrassing people would actually think I've I've gone freedom pass, I'm on a bus with eight-year-olds most mornings after 9 30 can i say can i just confirm ruth and frank there were actually four arsenal buses oh media i'll keep it in the mic sorry i know the the first the lead bass Premier League champions, obviously that's the team. Oh, they were first. That's your second. They were second. They were first, followed by the staff. Frank won't approve of that. Who wants to see the staff? Yeah, what are they? Oh look, there's the physio Yeah. Who's that bug? Oh, it's the mascot, but he thought he wouldn't wear it today. Where was Gonosaurus? You know, yeah, gone a saurus. Too big, can't fit on. The costumes are cumbersome. That's our mascot, Frank. You know that. I knew that. He was sacked for a while. But anyway, so Iris is baggy bird. I thought do you know I did Boilerman? Well this was pre -Boilerman. Oh I see. So but I mention it because there was also a baggy junior who was like a a slightly lesser baggy bird. I don't like me and Adie I know. I've got rid of that nickname now. It's taken me a while. And me and Adrian Giles were we were the two mascots and no one knew. So we were dancing about on the pitch and all that, and it was a real lark until we realised it was the Remembrance Sunday thing, and we had to stand and look um solemn yeah solemn dressed as fucking giant thrushes and I remember trying to slightly raise my beak as a sign of respect for the fallen. Little salute, thrush salute. Oh I didn't I I couldn't really get me wing round for a salute. Well you've got no purchase in a thrush costume. No, no. So listen guys, just to confirm, for avoidance of doubt four buses yeah yeah there was the lead bus feet the leads bus if leads had just got on the front in a bus. We had a great season I thought started up. Imagine if a team, like a London team, like West Hammer's like, yeah, we're just gonna we're just gonna draw. Maybe not West Ham, they got relegated. So the lead bus was you know, Saka et al. Right. Followed by our staff bus, which Frank I know we'll disapprove of. No well, you know, God bless them, but I think they should just be in a bus, not an open t maybe a closed bus. Couldn't they be in the lower deck? No, that's so rude. Our support staff, it represents it's like a metaphor as well, that they are on scene but supportive. Then our women's team. Okay. Did they win stuff as well? Uh women's championscope. Oh well. That's fair enough. Should have been at the top front, really. But anyway, and then we have Should have been ahead of the fucking staff. The final bus. Yeah . Aye girls still way to go. Do you know what? He's such an ally. Um final bust. More of an ally . Activist. Yeah. That was a black country joke, Ruby. No, I didn't get it because I'm not from black country. There's a famous sort of Black Country Double Act called Enoch and Ayoli . Is that Enoch Powell? No. No, he was never in the Double Act, I don't think. They used to have a page in the Black Country Bugle with the joke scene. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But they were also real people as well. There was a well they started out I think as fictional and then uh there was a double act doing the rounds in the black country of Anock and Iowa. Do you want to know who are the final boss was? I bet it wasn't aloe. And he's not gonna be Gunasaurus. Um Keir Starmer. No. Let me guess the media. The final bus is a celebration of our community with Arsenal supporters joining us. As well as So those Arsenal supporters as well as a selection of Arsenal staff members nominated by their peers for an outstanding contribution to the club. So more staff. Why the staff getting one and a half buses? That's mad. How many staff are there? They should be driving the bloody things. But it wouldn't be possible without all the No it wouldn't be possible. Next you're gonna be thanking the police group. A big round of applause for the police. And but the the Arsenal fans who got that, that's a great music Yeah that Anyway, that's what we that I'd say that if I was offered that. I'd say no. Well you turned down the nineties bass. Well yeah, that was right though, isn't it? Do the players want to do it, do you think? Do they like it? Yes, well you know did you notice this, Ruth? You're on the socials. There were lots of vis you know, people like Declan Rice, they all take their videos of it. They're really excited. Terrible thing is I the what the coverage I saw, there was a whole group of fans video ing the players videoing the fans. I mean nobody was there. No. Yeah. They'll only see it when they get out , I said every gig I go to I do a bunch of videos and that photos. I never fucking look at any of them ever. No. What's the point? Maybe when I'm old and I can't remember where I've been. I should have videoed you at the at the lovely eggs. Yeah, did you not video it? I don't see video any of the lovely eggs. No, I d that didn't seem right. And also I was on tour with them so I seen them three times. I think I did video a bit actually. Yeah. I'll have to have a look. Um T. S. Elliott said in nearly. Okay. Well that's all do we have got time to read some things from the outside world? Well we've got two and a half minutes. There's not really time, is there? I don't want to do it short change. I what if we start I've got a quick one I could read. Oh if you've got a quick one. Which is just actually a request. It's a bit of ad min, really. Okay. Um, it's from it's to do with your poetry podcast. Oh, yes. And it's from uh Grace Jarvis, who's doing her GCSEs. Did you see this, Ruth? My name my name is Grace Jarvis. I'm fourteen years old. It's a great name, Grace. I have to go It's great I love it. I've started studying power and conflict poetry in school for my G C S E's and I've recently listened to your podcast on Ozzie Mandius, one of my favourite poems, by the way, Frank, which I found incredibly helpful. Grace has some requests. I don't know if you do requests on the Poetry Podcast, but I'm gonna leave them with you. She's fourteen doing a GCSEs, and I love that you're helping her. Would it be possible hold on, I'm not bloody Cole's notes You are now would it be possible to do any of the other poems in my GCSE anthology? I would really appreciate it. I love Grace. The confidence of Grace. I would really appreciate it if you could do a few in your next What you got, Grace. Okay. We've got London by William Blake. Oh yes. Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes. Someone's phone. Probably me. How embarrassing. How embar who is it? I've got to read it out now. Oh no, that felt like a bayonet charge to my heart That is my agent's assistant. Okay? Okay. I'm doing it. It's a bad sign. Yeah, exactly. It's a really bad sign. Do you want to know uh the end of this? London by William Blake. Yes. Bayonet Charged by Ted Hughes. I don't know Bayonet Charged by Ted Hughes. Poppies by Jane Weir and Checking Out Me History by John Aggard. So those are the four that I'm leaving you with. Grace ends it with thank you so much. Well thank you, Grace, and good luck with your GCS . My own child is entering into them next year, so and he's doing end of term assessments this week, so the stress in the house. Can you help them with the poetry at all? I bet you're gonna be a Well it's not it's not the this week they're just doing the the um you know what they choose some GSS G whatever. GSE esase,. Yeah. And um there's ones they have to do. So they just do you know the really boring like math science bollocks. They have to do that. Because something a Tory government said like 30 years ago 'cause they were worried that people might have a sort of a beautiful view of the world of people when they should be making rivets in Netherton Rivency Neverton, a novel by Barrel Brain. Yay, yay Barrel Sorry. It's the Frank Skin of a podcast A new inter change is blowing . It's the Frank Skinner Podcast . I'm not totally sure how it's going . Thanks for listening to the podcast. Make sure to like and follow so you never miss an episode. And if you want to get in touch, you can email the podcast via frankoff the radio at avalonuk .com .