Comedy of the Week - Live from the UK

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

Live from the UK brings you the best comedy talent from around the country, all from the comfort of your own headphones.Host Angela Barnes travels to comedy clubs across the country. In the last of the series, we hear about Newcastle's inventions, Birmingham's architecture and Manchester's ethical eating habits.Also hear stand up sets that pinpoint exactly when this country went downhill, tell you why you should never guess a man's height, extolls the benefits of scheduling romantic liaisons, and describe the perils of attending music festivals in your 40s.In the last of the current series, you can hear;Gavin Webster at The Stand, Newcastle Melina Fiol at the Frog and Bucket, Manchester Scott Bennett at the Glee Club, Birmingham and headliner Susie McCabe at The Stand, GlasgowAdditional Material by Eve DelaneyRecorded by Sean Kerwin and David Thomas Sound design by David Thomas Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls Executive Producer: Pete StraussProduced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4.An EcoAudio Certified Production.

BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. Hello, you are listening to Live from the UK. I'm Angela Barnes and I am bringing you some of the best stand up comedians from across the land. We will be in this show from Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, but we come to you first from Glasgow. CHEERING It makes me so happy to be in Glasgow. I bloody love Glasgow. I feel like I should have been born here.

I should have been. Look at me. I'm pasty as they come. I'm so pasty. I swear like a docker. I should be Glaswegian. That's the thing, because you swear like punctuation, don't you here? You know, you do and I do as well. What I always say, like, as a working class girl from the South, what we lack in H's,

we make up for in F's. That's just how it is. You know, we teach our kids, don't we, that swearing's the worst thing that you can do, but it isn't, is it? It's not the worst. We don't teach our kids, don't we, that swearing's the worst thing that you can do, but it isn't, is it? It's not the worst thing. We don't teach our kids the real sign

that someone's are wrong, do we? Like not having a sense of humor, or playing golf. I like saying that, because it makes a certain type of man fold his arms. Really turns me on. I don't know about you, Glasgow. I don't know about you. It's not been, it's not been people who swear

who have messed us up these last 10 years, has it? It's been the posh ones, hasn't it? And I think that's what I love about Glasgow. I read a statistic recently that four out of five people in Glasgow want to tax the rich more. Yeah! Presumably the other one lives in Hindland, I don't know. Are you ready for your first act?

Yeah! Then please give a big Glasgow welcome to Mark Nelson! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much Glasgow. How are you? Good. It's lovely to be here. I love the fact that it can be the middle of the July and you'll go out and walk for five minutes and realise you need to return home immediately to get another jumper because your nipples have already worn through the one you're wearing. That's a like... I like the way we can shiver around a barbecue. That's a...

My favourite thing about the weather in Glasgow is I like when we've had three days of sun and someone on the news starts mentioning the term heatwave. Love it. I've spoken to people from places like Australia, South America and asked them what would term a heatwave in your country and they're throwing out things like 35, 40 degrees and you're just laughing at them. Trying to explain like a heatwave here normally means you've managed to get two washings out in the same day.

And listen, I'm being unfair, that's not to say we've not had heat waves. We've had them. You're a young wee guy. What's your name my man? Ben. Ben, how old are you Ben? 18. Right, you probably won't even remember our longest ever heat wave in Scotland. Take a guess Ben, how many days do you think Scotland's longest ever heatwave was? Five days. Five days? You're going for five days Ben? Five?

You tit. Five? Six? Six days. It was in June 1997 Ben? Yeah, we still talk about it. Yeah, I know you're laughing a lot of ginger people died that week.

Because you might not know Ben Scotland we used to be 98% ginger people and after the great tragedy of 97 we had two left, two left Ben, only two ginger people Ben. But what we're going to do Ben is we're going to send them to a zoo in China and we're going to try and get them to mate because ginger people don't mate naturally Ben. We started naming storms in this country now. Naming storms like Americans. There's a reason Americans name storms. They've got cool storms, like Hurricane Hank. People are terrified of Hurricane Hank.

People are running around going, Hurricane Hank's coming, Hurricane Hank. Leave the kids, Hurricane Hank's coming. It's Storm Henry. I better move my wheelie bin rather than that side of the house. Don't want to lose that during Storm Henry. Storm Henry, Storm Gertrude, Storm Imogen, who's naming these things? What are they naming them after people that work part time in a charity shop for?

It's not how you scare people. I tell you how you scare people. Start nailing them after guys your dad plays five-a-sides with. Storm Davey. You know Storm Davey likes a drink. Storm Davey will pump your wife. That's who you're with. Is this your dad you're with? Ben, how old are you, dad?

44. 44. Do you recycle? Kind of. How selfish are you dad? How selfish are you? What's your name Ben's dad? Colin. How many bins have you got Colin? Five. Five bins? Five? Nice, I've got 19. I love bins. I love them. It's weird. I've got a weird obsession with bins, honestly. I remember one day I was standing in my back garden and I saw my kids playing in a small square metre of grass and I thought, another bin could go in there. I got onto the phone to the bin people. I was like, send me a bin. And they did, they did. They sent me a small grey cubed bin. It's a food

recycling bin. You keep it in your kitchen, you put your food waste in it and then your kitchen starts to stink and then the rats come and they eat your family. And that's how you reduce your carbon footprint. Brilliant. This has been an absolute pleasure. Enjoy the rest of your night Glasgow. Thank you so much. Cheers. Thank you Glasgow and thank you so much. Cheers. Take care. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thank you, Glasgow, and thank you, Mark Nelson. I'm now in the brilliant city of Newcastle.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Did you know that Newcastle is the city most likely to get naked on holiday? LAUGHTER I was really shocked, cos it's also the coldest place in England. And I was really shocked, it's also the coldest place in England. And I was really shocked and then I remembered, oh no, yeah, no, I've been out on a Saturday night in Newcastle. I did a gig recently at a nudist festival and I was nervous, right, because I didn't know what to expect.

I'll tell you what, I didn't expect the smell, but anyway, it was so much fun and I was getting quite euphoric, right, because I was just having such a good time and I hadn't known what to expect. So I just said to them, you lot are amazing, you're so brave. I wish I was more like you. And a voice at the back shouted out, take your clothes off.

And I nearly did. I really wanted to, but a little voice in my head went, you're wearing Spanx and a jumpsuit. No one needs to see you try to wriggle out of that. I got to the end of the show, and I wouldn't usually say this, right, because it sounds like showing off

and it doesn't happen very often in comedy, but they gave me a standing ovation and I will never unsee it. Newcastle, are you ready for your next act of the evening? Please give a big Newcastle welcome to Louise Young. CHEERING Hello, everyone. It's lovely just to be in a place where you understand this accent.

The Geordie accent is a bizarre accent, a very Joran accent at first on Geordie accent is a bizarre accent, a very jarring accent at first on the ear. It is to some people. I met my friend's brother a while ago, my friend's German, and so's his brother. They're quite weird like that Germans. And when I met him, I thought I was kind of being like

nice and friendly and charming when I met his brother. Then when I left the situation, my friend's brother had went to him, your English friend, she's very nice, but why does she speak like a pirate? I must slow it down. And like an accident, because I'm from South Tyneside.

South Tyneside is a little bit rough around the edges. And I realized that I must have kind of internalized this a little bit growing up, right? Cause I went to London for uni, and I was travelling back one night to see me family in South Tyneside, and that night it had been the daytime, it had been the Great North Run.

And I'm not saying South Tyneside's rough, but I genuinely misinterpreted a sign as I drove in that just said, "'Welcome to South Tyneside. "'Good luck.' "'I'm gay. "'Usually I have more pre-ambulance, Good luck. LAUGHTER I'm gay. Usually I have more preambulance with that, but I'm on a short set, so you have to...

LAUGHTER ..just accept it. And, erm... I don't live in Newcastle anymore, and I went back to see me great-auntie, and I love her so much. Oh, my God, I love her. She was brilliant. She meant nothing by this, but she went and was, oh, hello, pet.

You have bloody missed you. Oh, and I've been thinking about you loads at the minute with the women's football being on. Give me strength. I live in Liverpool now. And there's a sign on the way from my house in a Liverpool city centre. I have not seen this road sign anywhere else in the country, nothing like it. and there's a sign on the way from my house in a Liverpool city centre.

I have not seen this road sign anywhere else in the country, nothing like it. So this road sign says, honestly, you may not curb crawl or solicit yourself on this street. It must have been a very prolific street for like sex work and stuff like that. They've had to enforce something, obviously. And I'm from Newcastle and I couldn't believe it.

And I went to my girl, this is why I love her so much, my girlfriend. I went to her, babe, have you seen that sign on the way to town that says you may not solicit yourself on this street? And she looked at us very sincerely, quite perplexed, but very sincerely. And she went, oh, well, I would just go down the next road. I said, babe, it wasn't the challenge.

Like, what the hell is wrong with you? I used to be very, very off the rails up until about two weeks ago. And a big turning point for me was one of my friends. She went, it was quite harsh, but she said this from a place of love. And she went, Louise, it's a good job. You haven't had any kids,

because if you did, they'd be taking off you. I was like, I know I'm so sorry. I'm going to sort my life out. I'm so, so, so sorry. But I can remember very vividly at that moment in my head thinking, oh my God, there's a good chance that's actually happened that I just can't remember. I don't envy people that I know that are parents.

It must be very hard to have kids these days. I think as kids have access to so much, like in terms of like entertainment, videos, like a kid now can think of a song and click a button and just listen to that song. It's amazing. You know, like by contrast, when I was a kid, I had so little at my fingertips.

I remember honestly, for one summer, I sat and watched on repeat every day a video of me auntie's wedding at Gateshead Civic Centre. So how depressing is that? A lot of comedians will hammer up how crazy their lives have been for comedic effect. I can promise you, I'll never ever,

if anything, I play things down for career reasons. As testament to how off the rails I was, right? And this is true. This is proof I must've been off the rails. So this was about, I think six years ago, and I was a brand new comedian, and I was doing loads of kind of going off the rails jokes. Yeah, it was in this very club,

and Gaza, Paul Gascoigne was in the audience, right? Yeah, he was quite drunk heckling a lot. And so he was there. And I was doing loads of jokes about going off the rails. This is how I know my life must've been objectively ridiculous. When I got off stage, Gaza, Paul Gascoigne, he ran up to us, he gave us a massive big hug

and he went, oh, Louise, it's like we've had the same life. Thank you so much for having us, I've been Louise Young, thanks a lot. Thank you Newcastle and thank you Louise Young. You now join me at the Frog and Bucket in Manchester I've been doing a bit of reading about you Manchester. Did you know that Manchester was originally called? Manchester right MAM. Did you know that do you know why? It's mam as in mammary, cos when the Romans got to Manchester and saw the settlement on the hill,

they thought it looked like a breast. And that's why you're called Mamchester. Right, you've got mam and chest in there. Where are you twinned with, cockermouth? I don't know. I'm going to bring on your next act. Are you ready for it? Please give a big Manchester welcome to Hayley Ellis. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello.

My name's Hayley. This is my face. I always look tired. This is what it is. I can do my make-up for an hour and still look like I've just plumbed in a washing machine. Do you know what I mean? I think it's because I've got these very dark circles under my eyes. They're actually hereditary, I think it's because I've got these very dark circles under my eyes.

They're actually hereditary. So my mom and her mom also did heroin. Oh, listen to this Manchester. I had to go to the doctors recently. I've got very bad dry eyes at the minute. Can't get any moisture in my eyes. Body's 80% water and not one drop will go in my eye. Does anyone else suffer?

Give me a blink if you do. So when the doctor's about it, oh, it's depressing. Doctor said it's age related. He said, one of the reasons your eyes are drying out so quickly now, Hayley, is because you've got thin eyelids. Yep, thin eyelids. It's ironic, isn't it? It's the only part of my body I don't want to be thin.

Me mates are like, have you lost weight? Haley, just the lids, girls. I've been doing slimming lids. Got Lid of the Week this week. Been on the old iZempac. Do you know what I mean? Very, very bleak. Got to sort my life out. I promised myself in 2025 I'd sort my life out. I promised myself in 2025

I'd sort my life out. So I joined a gym. I'd been told not to spend all the money on a posh gym just using a treadmill, so I thought I'd mix it up a little bit. I thought I'd have a little go on the Stairmaster machine. Oh, I've never used it before. Got to the top of the stairs, couldn't get it working. Lovely fella in the gym could see we were struggling.

He came over, got it working. Give me a few tips. He said, just use it like you'd use a normal set of stairs at home. So just dumped a load of laundry on the middle step. I sat on the bottom one, had a little cry. I've got a daughter, she keeps me fit. Well, she's four now. She kicks off a lot.

She's at that age where she kicks off a lot. The other day, she wanted to go to nursery in a nickel-pigle swimsuit and wellies. She's four now. She kicks off a lot. She's at that age where she kicks off a lot. The other day she wanted to go to nursery in a nickel-pigle swimsuit and wellies. And I'm like, you can't wear that because that's what I'm wearing. We'll clash. Been with her dad 12 years.

We're very happy at the minute because at the minute I'm here. 12 years together, we're not married. He hasn't asked me, I'm not even bothered, barely even think about every waking moment. I'm not bothered at all really, it's 2025, I don't need to get married at the end of the day. We've got a kid, we've got a mortgage, that means more doesn't it, at the end of the day?

Do you know what it means, like 20 grand, 10 grand for a wedding, are you married? Are you married? Does it matter, does it, at the end of the day? Because like, I don't even know if I'll have a wedding, to be honest with you, because then my mom would have to sit next to me dad, I don't really want to invite my dad,

because we've not spoke to him about four years, that'd be an awkward conversation. And then my friend tagged me over the front, did a bad pitch on Facebook, and they don't get know if I'll have a wedding, to be honest with you, because then my mum would have to sit next to me dad, I don't really want to invite me dad, because we've not spoke to him about four years, that'd be an awkward conversation. And then my friend tagged me over the front, did a bad picture on Facebook, and they don't get on with me, but I've not really thought about it, to be honest with you. Yeah. CHEERING

Don't even care. LAUGHTER Do you know? Hendoos as well, that's why I wouldn't want to get married, wouldn't want to have a hen-do. Personally, No, I couldn't think of anything worse, right, than having to go on a night out with me mum. That's it. Just me and Pauline sat on a Wetherspoons dressed like minions.

It makes me chest tight. That's all. I went on a hen do before Christmas and that's what just sort of set me off about them. I stayed in a guest house in Blackpool on my own and the lady running the guest house, she gave me my front door key to my them. I stayed in a guest house in Blackpool on my own and the lady running the guest house,

she gave me my front door key to my room and attached to my front door key, welded on, so I couldn't take it off, was a full-size spatula. I attached to me door key. I went, what's this for? She went, stop your losing your keys, love. It'll stop me going out, Linda. I couldn't take a handbag out

to take a cutlery drawer out of me. First night at this hen do we went to Revolution. We did the cocktail making experience. Yeah, the experience was I paid 60 quid to make a drink myself. Give me the keys, I'll lock up for you on the way out, shall I? Do you want me to do the staff rota while I'm here? I was raging. Then we went out round Blackpool.

I'm not a good drunk, I'll just put it out now. I'm a very, very bad drunk. I woke up the next morning, right? Spatula next to me head. I just had Sambuca leaking out me eye. I'm like, well, at least it's moist for a change. I was so hungover. And the lady who planned the hen do doesn't drink,

so she didn't think. And the next day she booked in a day zorbing. Now, if you've never been zorbing, it's a giant inflatable ball that you get in the middle of like a human hamster and you roll down a hill. I was like, Nikki, we can't be doing this. Ginny's just started HRT, she can't be sweating in a big ball.

And she went to me, oh, you're so dramatic, Haley.. Don't do it for hours. You can only do it for 20 minutes because you run out of oxygen. LAUGHTER I'm the dramatic one. Words will not describe how horrific it was, right? I was spinning 360 degrees. You had to take me room, Kierna kept getting bashed by a spatula. LAUGHTER

I'm going to go now. You lot have been absolutely delightful. Thank you very much. CHEERING You had to take me room, Kieran kept getting bashed by a spatula. LAUGHTER I'm going to go now. You lot have been absolutely delightful. Thank you very much. CHEERING Your headline act this week comes from the Glee Club in Birmingham. CHEERING Please give a warm welcome to Josh Pugh. CHEERING

Hello, Birmingham. thank you very much. Listen, I'm trying to be a good person this year, right? I've actually started calling my male friends out for their toxic behaviour. You think that's a good thing to do? So, you guys heard of this thing called love bombing? Do you know what love bombing is? So, love bombing, if you don't know, is when somebody bombards their partner with affection

and it creates like a weird power dynamic. Well, I was slightly caught and my good friend's doing this a couple of weeks ago, we were out together. And he kind of makes all these promises publicly to his partner, he says, you're gonna take care of her, look after her. And then later in the day,

he gets up and does his whole speech about what she means to him, how he's never gonna leave her. And in the end, I actually took him to one side, like, mate, what you're doing is not cool. It's very toxic. It's actually called love-bomb, it's a form of abuse.

He got really defensive, saying it's his wedding day and all this. And I... I don't know. I'd seen enough, though, I'd seen enough. I've made a lot of weddings at the minute, man. I think it's just the age I'm at. And my wife, she always gets the gifts for the couples,

she's very organised. She usually gets the gifts right from a website called notonthehighstreet.com. Are you familiar with this website? Yeah. If you don't know, it's things like a knot on the high street that they've nailed it, really. Now, the reason you won't find those items on the high street

is because no high street retailer, in their right mind, would stock any of it. Answer me this, why would anybody need a personalised chopping board? Now as an item, chopping boards, they don't really leave the house. They're a... I never woke up to a phone call from a friend one morning, yeah mate, bit of an awkward one. Yeah, I'm asking him, I'm asking him now. Erm, he didn't pick up our chopping board last night.

He didn't pick up our chopping board. I'm a married man, been with my wife a long time. I'm not a good husband though, if I'm being honest. I'm not very good at being a husband. Like I'm not unfaithful or controlling, but I am incompetent and that can really grind a person down. I don't know what this says about me, but I'm not my wife's emergency contact. It's not a great sign that, is it?

I just make mistakes. The worst mistake I've made in our marriage, my wife's favourite dinner in the whole world is beef stew in the slow cooker. Very exotic woman, that's her favourite dinner. One day she gets up from work early, she puts the beef stew into the slow cooker, she goes out to work.

She texts me at lunchtime saying, can't wait for this beef stew, really looking forward to it. Gets in five o'clock in the evening rubbing her hands together, I've been looking forward to this all day. What neither of us realised was that at about 12 o'clock that day, I'd accidentally unplugged the slow cooker so that I could plug in Alexa to ask how old Ronan Keating is. the slow cooker so that I could plug in Alexa to ask how old Ronan Keating is. She was so mad. She's like, what were you thinking? I was like, I don't know, late 30s, early 40s potentially. He's 49.

I've got to tell people. I love the slow cooker by the way. Big fan of the gadgets. I love it. Every year they bring out a new gadget. I was thinking, I'm going to tell people. I love the slow cooker, by the way. Big fan of the gadgets. I love it every year, but they bring out a new gadget. I always think, I'm gonna get that gadget. I had the George Foreman grill, rest in peace. I had the Nutri Boy, I had the spiralizer, I had the inflatable hot tub, I had the flashlight.

I've had them all. My favorite ever gadget, it's probably the George Foreman grill. Great piece of machinery. And we sadly lost a big man a couple of weeks ago. And me and my little brother, who's only 21, we're watching the news of George Foreman grill. Great piece of machinery. And we sadly lost a big man a couple of weeks ago. And me and my little brother, he's only 21, we're watching the news of George Foreman's death breaking. And my little brother, he didn't know that before the grill,

George Foreman was formerly the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He didn't know that. It absolutely blew his mind. Well, it would do, wouldn't it? That's like us finding out today that Russell Hobbs was a lead singer of Led Zeppelin. Well, it would do, wouldn't it? That's like us finding out today

that Russell Hobbs was a lead singer of Led Zeppelin. I love the rags to riches stories. I think we love to narrativise everything in the UK. I was reading a story about Ed Sheeran, right? He said, Ed Sheeran is now a multi-platinum selling recording artist, but at the age of 15, he worked part-time in a cafe. Okay, I mean, yeah.

Sure, we're all successful if you go back far enough. Anyway. I'm not the best comedian in the world, but at one point, I couldn't even support the weight of my own head. This is a real underdog story you're witnessing here tonight. This is unbelievable. I've got two children actually myself.

I've got a three year old and a 13, we're called actually, they're amazing. Thank you very much. Is there parents in the room? Yeah. Yeah, it's great. And it's hard. It's actually changed my whole perspective, to be honest.

Like growing up, I thought I had an angry dad, but now I'm a dad. I'm like, oh no. We just pushed a very reasonable man to breaking point. Just a lovely placid guy, doesn't swear, doesn't raise his voice. When we were kids, different story, right? One day my dad took me and my sister to Cadbury's World, about a 40 minute drive from where we live.

We get to Cadbury's World, me and my sister start messing about in the back of the car, so my dad drives one lap of the car park and then straight back home again. And then they're telling him, look, this guy's out of order. But now we're both parents, aren't we? Yeah, good call, good shout. That day was going one way.

Get yourself home. Cut your losses, get yourself home. Great decision. But there's also another side of parenting that people don't talk about as much. It's also, of course, you know, very, very boring. It's boring as well. People don't talk about how boring having kids is. My eldest is three years old, right?

I spend all day with him, not being arrogant, but I'm much more advanced than he is. I'm much further along in my development, right? And I'm with him all day. My wife gets back from work, so if you had a good day today, I'm like, not really, no. I've been massively understimulated, to be honest. We did a jigsaw earlier that had four good day today. I'm like, not really, no. I've been massively undistimulated, to be honest. We did a jigsaw earlier that had four pieces in it.

That is not enough. It's going, daddy, we need to find the corners. I'm like, mate, it's all corners, there's four pieces. When you become a parent, it's like, your parents give you advice, they're trying to help you, give you tips and stuff, how to do it. I never forget my little boy, right,

he's like a week old. I'm holding him. And my mum actually, my mom says, Josh, just think, that little boy you're holding there, can go into anything he wants to be. He could be a top doctor, a politician, an astronaut. So wow, that's amazing, ain't it? But also, I won the thought so.

An astronaut, from me to an astronaut in one generation. That's a hell of a leap. I went to the pub the other day, right? The door was a push door. I was pulling it. I thought the pub was closed. I just went home again. NASA are not coming to my offspring. I'll tell you that. She said, doctor, he could be a doctor. Wow, man, if my little boy's a doctor, I'd be so proud.

I think doctors are amazing people. So brave, aren't they, doctors? Do you agree with that? Doctors are brave. Doctors are brave. Braver than doctors, though, St. John's ambulance. Those guys are brave. To give medical advice with no knowledge or training whatsoever.

That takes real guts. Anybody could brave his seven years at medical school behind him. Grow some balls, try blagging it under a gazebo at a village faith. By the way, how are hot water bottles, still a thing? How have they slipped through the health and safety net? And what if you're trying to get a hot water bottle made now in 2025? Oh, what's your idea then? Oh, basically what it is,

it's a sack of boiling water you take to bed with you. That sounds pretty dead. How are you filling that up? Oh, just directly from the kettle. Just put a hole that big, side of a two that up? Oh, just diorally from the kettle. Just put a hole that big, sort of a two pence piece, just straight in there. Also, it's completely opaque,

as well as you cut some of it, you just put in, you've got to squeeze it, I hope for the best. Okay, well. That sounds pretty dangerous. Who are you going to sell that to? Oh, we're thinking old people and pregnant women. Okay, good luck to you.

Listen, I'll be Josh Pierre. Enjoy your night, take care, cheers. Thank you. Listen, I'll be Josh Pugh. Enjoy your night. Take care. Cheers. Thank you very much. Bye-bye. Thanks to all our guests. Thanks to all our audiences across the country. I've been Angela Barnes. Goodbye! CHEERING Live from the UK was hosted by me, Angela Barnes,

and featured Mark Nelson, Louise Young, Hayley Ellis and Josh Pugh. Additional material from Eve Delaney. The producer was Gwyn Rhys Davies and it was a BBC Studios audio production for Radio 4. Hello it's Angela Barnes here and that was Live from the UK and if you enjoyed listening to it, well have I got some good news for you because there are three more episodes available right now on BBC Sounds. Just search for stand-up specials. Hello, Greg Jenner here. I am the host of You're Dead to Me from BBC Radio 4.

We are the comedy show that takes history seriously and then laughs at it. And we're back for a brand new series, Series 9, where we're covering all sorts of things from Aristotle to the legends of King Arthur to the history of coffee to the reign of Catherine of Medici of France, we are looking at the Arts and Crafts movement and the life of Sojourner Truth and how cuneiform writing systems worked in the Bronze Age. Loads of different stuff, it's a fantastic series, it's funny, we get great historians, we get great comedians, so if you want to listen to You're Dead to Me, listen first on BBC Sounds.