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Speaker 1: If you're looking for something to watch over the long weekend,

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Speaker 1: then why not check out Young Sherlock on Prime stars

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Speaker 1: Colin Firth and Joseph Fines.

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Speaker 2: My name is Sherlock Holmes. I've always been more of

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Speaker 2: a thinker than a fighter. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

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Speaker 2: There's an act the fighting.

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Speaker 3: There's not a war artually, Stephen, those days are's really

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Speaker 3: behind me. I'm in Oxford now you have to promise me,

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Speaker 3: sudly anything mother today, out out of trouble, Sherlock Holmes,

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Speaker 3: James Moriarty, Sherlock is speaking friends. Charlocke never made any friends.

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Speaker 3: What a game I would playing today?

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Speaker 2: What game would you like to play?

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Speaker 3: God?

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Speaker 2: Micraft plenty? And that's going on? Do you mind telling

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Speaker 2: me why your brother is standing on the scene of

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Speaker 2: the crime. I'm curious as to why I'm being set

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Speaker 2: up for murder, but I need proof.

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Speaker 1: There are other forces of work. Sorry to bother you, sir.

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Speaker 2: What is it a bomb? A bomb?

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Speaker 1: A bottom is an incendive A advisor?

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Speaker 2: I don't want a bloody bomb.

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Speaker 1: He's got such a distinctive voice, asn't he Colin Firth?

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Speaker 1: But I do wonder whether he plays the same character

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Speaker 1: in a lot of his stuff. Is that fair to say? Anyway,

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Speaker 1: I'm a fan, Gail. Hello, Hello, I have a confession

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Speaker 1: to make, Gail, and that is that I've never really

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Speaker 1: got into the Sherlock Holmes thing.

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Speaker 3: Oh dear right. I'm not a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes.

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Speaker 2: But I did love Guy Richie's remakes of the sort

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Speaker 2: of story with Robert Downey Jr.

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Speaker 3: And Jude Law in two thousand and nine and twenty eleven.

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Speaker 2: So that's why I picked this up, because I thought

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Speaker 2: it would be rather fun to see what he had

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Speaker 2: done with the origin stories of Sherlock Holmes.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, so that was my reasoning for looking at it,

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Speaker 3: I thought.

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Speaker 2: And interestingly enough, two hundred and twenty three million views

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Speaker 2: of the trailer, the first trailer that came out of this,

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Speaker 2: which is quite interesting.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, such a lot. So it is a lot.

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Speaker 2: So the young Sherlock is played by hero Finds Tiffin,

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Speaker 2: who is the nephew of Joseph and Ray Fine. And

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Speaker 2: he actually played Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and Half

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Speaker 2: Blood Prince.

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Speaker 3: Because obviously he resembled his uncle Ray Fines.

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Speaker 2: Oh and also so now he stars with his other uncle,

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Speaker 2: Joseph Finds, who plays his father in this, so I

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Speaker 2: suppose he possibly has had a bit of a hand

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Speaker 2: up into the acting world, but he is he.

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Speaker 3: He's young Sherlock.

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Speaker 2: And then Donald Finn who's a young actor, funny enough

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Speaker 2: Irish actor that I've just seen in another series called

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Speaker 2: The Other Bennett's Sister, which is which is the story

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Speaker 2: of Mary Bennett. I'm not sure if it's it's on BBC,

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Speaker 2: but it is worth picking up if it if you

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Speaker 2: spot it on your travels. But in this he is

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Speaker 2: James Moriarty, who of course becomes Sherlock Holmes's arch nemesis

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Speaker 2: in the in the in the books, and this sort

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Speaker 2: of begins with Sherlock Holmes in jail because he's been

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Speaker 2: testing out whether he can pickpocket people and obviously gets caught,

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Speaker 2: but he gets caught giving the wallets back rather than

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Speaker 2: taking them. But so his his brother Microft, who those

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Speaker 2: who are fans will know is always bailing Sherlock out

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Speaker 2: of trouble. His first act in this series is to

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Speaker 2: bail Sherlock out of trouble, find him a job at

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Speaker 2: Oxford as a as a sort of helper, and there

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Speaker 2: he meets James Moriarty and there unfolds this mystery, which

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Speaker 2: begins with a Chinese princess who arrives with some rare scrolls,

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Speaker 2: and Colin Firth is the sort of is an Oxford

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Speaker 2: benefactor and an imperialist who has all sorts of business

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Speaker 2: dealings in China, and so unfolds this eight episodes very

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Speaker 2: Guy Ritchie, because Guy Ritchie sort of stock you know,

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Speaker 2: lockstock and choose poking battle.

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Speaker 1: This is where I might be lured in. This is

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Speaker 1: where I could.

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Speaker 2: Be There's sort of you know, the thing where he

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Speaker 2: does the sort of speed it up scenes.

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Speaker 3: There's lots of fisty cos.

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Speaker 2: And so anyone who's a fan of his sort of

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Speaker 2: his what I would call is seminal work. This this

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Speaker 2: definitely has echoes of it running through it, so that

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Speaker 2: should lure some people into it. I think overall, eight

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Speaker 2: could have done six. It takes a little bit of

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Speaker 2: while to turn into the globe truckting, action packed murder mystery,

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Speaker 2: but once it gets going, boy, it gets going, and

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Speaker 2: you go to Paris and Constantinople and they sort of

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Speaker 2: do It's quite sort of fun.

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Speaker 3: It's all period.

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Speaker 2: It's set in the sort of mid eighteen hundreds, so

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Speaker 2: you know, from that point of view, it's fun.

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Speaker 3: I think the two leads do a good job.

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Speaker 2: It's a rape finds sort of drops in a bit

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Speaker 2: later Colin Firth, so they're not leads, but they're certainly there.

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Speaker 2: And Natasha McKellen, who I think was in Californication.

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Speaker 3: For years, but I always remember her from Ronan and

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Speaker 3: the Devil's Own from way back.

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Speaker 2: She plays their mother, and that she's sort of in

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Speaker 2: the first episode you meet her and she's insane asylum

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Speaker 2: recovering from the death of their sister. But they eventually,

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Speaker 2: you know, eventually she joins the story in a much

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Speaker 2: more meaningful But I think overall, if you're looking for

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Speaker 2: something a bit of fun to watch and you've got

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Speaker 2: a few hours to spare, then this one is pretty

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Speaker 2: good going.

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Speaker 1: We were having a conversation with actor Lo Fenton on

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Speaker 1: the show yesterday and we got talking about just the

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Speaker 1: way of modern film and television making, and he was

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Speaker 1: talking about and he works in that space a lot,

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Speaker 1: and he was talking about the fact that a lot

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Speaker 1: of television companies now or production companies are asking the

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Speaker 1: question of whether something is second screen friendly, I e. Will,

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Speaker 1: can a person follow the storyline with ease on the

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Speaker 1: basis that the likelihood is they've got their phone the

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Speaker 1: second screen in their hand at the same time, which

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Speaker 1: is terrifying to me. But I also understand it. And

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Speaker 1: you saying that eight eight episodes long, I just know

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Speaker 1: this isn't. This isn't because I don't have the attention span.

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Speaker 1: I'm eight eight episodes for me is long these days?

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Speaker 2: It is it's a working day, really, isn't it? Eight

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Speaker 2: hours when finding time?

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Speaker 1: I think the thing is is somebody had suggested a

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Speaker 1: series to me the other day, and it's like, I

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Speaker 1: don't I can't commit to that. I might be able

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Speaker 1: to manage half an episode once a week, but consistently,

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Speaker 1: and then I've got to remind myself, okay, I'm going

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Speaker 1: back in for the other half. Who's what It's such?

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Speaker 1: It's such interrupted viewing, Gail.

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Speaker 2: You see, I think that things have got to grab

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Speaker 2: you so that you don't mind giving up the eight hours.

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Speaker 3: I agree.

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Speaker 1: So compelling, hasn't it exactly?

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Speaker 2: And and that's why the eight I think a six

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Speaker 2: is the ideal, A really compelling series, and three is

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Speaker 2: even better.

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Speaker 1: Three is better, isn't it? Three is better. The last

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Speaker 1: thing that I watched that was three was and I

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Speaker 1: can't remember the name of it, but it starred I

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Speaker 1: want to say, Stephen Graham as the father of that

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Speaker 1: young boy accused of alert adolescence. Exactly, Thank you, Gal.

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Speaker 1: That got me. I thought that was spectacic. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: it was hard going three episodes, and I I'm glad

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Speaker 1: it wasn't longer than three. I was happy with three

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Speaker 1: after the first one. I was ready for the second one.

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Speaker 1: I think I binged it perfect for me. You can't

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Speaker 1: be asking me to do eight episodes. I'm so sorry. No. No,

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Speaker 1: Although that said, you know what, I'm really looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the second season of Rivals.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, well, we're all looking forward to that where

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Speaker 2: I'm going to have to get Disney again for that.

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Speaker 3: The month that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, we can get We've got to get

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Speaker 1: We've got to get Gail Disney, get the Disney people on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: No, that, I'm looking forward to that. I'm happy to.

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Speaker 1: I think also because I'm so familiar with the book,

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Speaker 1: I don't you know, I'm happy to kind of dip

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Speaker 1: in and out of that, although I don't think I will.

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Speaker 1: I think i'll binge it, but yeah, eight is long anyway,

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Speaker 1: I do like guy Ritchie and so maybe I'll give

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Speaker 1: it a go. It is Young chap on Prime, Thanks

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Speaker 1: very much, indeed, Gail Chat next week