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Speaker 1: And Amanda gem Nation.

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Speaker 2: David Williams is known for his comedic brilliance in Little Britain,

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Speaker 2: he's captivated audiences of all ages for over twenty years.

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Speaker 2: For the first time ever, this award winning comedian, actor

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Speaker 2: and author is hitting the stage with a new show

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Speaker 2: called An Audience with David Williams. I wonder who'll be

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Speaker 2: in it. Here's David Williams right now. Hello David, Hello,

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Speaker 2: good day to you get a Is this the first

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Speaker 2: time he's done a show?

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Speaker 1: Was it even?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the first time I've done a show like this? Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean I've been doing lots of sort of book shows,

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Speaker 3: you know, for families and kids, and I've really enjoyed that,

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Speaker 3: you know, putting a show together, not making it, not

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Speaker 3: sort of writing it down exactly, but just knowing where

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Speaker 3: you're heading with it, knowing where your funny stories are

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Speaker 3: and entertain people. I loved it, and then I was

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Speaker 3: asked to come and do this show and I was

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Speaker 3: a bit daunted at first, but then we started working

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Speaker 3: on it, plotting it out. You know, what stories have

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Speaker 3: I got for this that the other? How can we

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Speaker 3: go through my life and career? There'd be loads of

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Speaker 3: funny stories, and also I wanted to be lots of

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Speaker 3: things people hadn't heard before, and I was the one

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Speaker 3: edding it had a couple of poignant moments, and so

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Speaker 3: we've been plotting out the show.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, there.

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Speaker 3: Will be a chance for anybody to ask me anything

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Speaker 3: they want as well. So because the thing I noticed

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Speaker 3: when you do a show, the thing that people like

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Speaker 3: the most is where things go wrong, and so when

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Speaker 3: someone asks a bizarre question or someone shouts something out,

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Speaker 3: those are always the best bits. I want it to

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Speaker 3: be spontaneous too. It won't be like it's a play

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Speaker 3: or anything like that. It will be sort of halfway

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Speaker 3: between this Q and a show and a sort of

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Speaker 3: stand up show in that way.

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Speaker 4: Is there anything you don't want anyone to ask you?

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Speaker 1: Anything that you don't want?

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Speaker 3: I can't think of anything. I mean, obviously, the more

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Speaker 3: personal it gets to get a little bit, a little

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Speaker 3: bit more confident. I mean, a kid wrote to me

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Speaker 3: the other day and said they must have been looking

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Speaker 3: on Wikipedia or something like that, said why did you.

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Speaker 1: Split up with your wife? Can't get into that, you know,

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Speaker 1: but I think they just.

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Speaker 3: Looked at my Wikipedi or something yeah, and they just

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Speaker 3: seen some facts and they need tens that they know.

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Speaker 3: You know that maybe it's a little bit of persons

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Speaker 3: obviously that I think it'd be okay, So.

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Speaker 4: I don't ask about the wife. You know what I

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Speaker 4: learned about you and I didn't know. I was listening

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Speaker 4: to Richard Osmond's podcast and your original line was David

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Speaker 4: Williams and you changed it to Williams.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know that I was. I just that's right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, I had to because I had to join

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Speaker 3: the Equity, which is the British Actors' Union, and you

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Speaker 3: need a unique name so that you know, if there's

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Speaker 3: two Ian McKellen's and one of them gets all the

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Speaker 3: royalty checks from a lot of the rings, and there's

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Speaker 3: someone else called Ian McKellen who gets the BACKCN, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's that. So I had to change my name. And

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Speaker 3: I was sort of spoolish and young, and I thought.

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Speaker 1: It would be funny if I call David.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't really know what was funny about that,

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Speaker 3: but I know I'm stuck with it, so I can't

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Speaker 3: change it now. But the nice thing is I'm unique.

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Speaker 2: So many people these days write children's books because I

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Speaker 2: think it's going to be easy, but you've been so

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Speaker 2: successful it's harder than it seems, I imagine to get

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I think it's just that, you know, children's

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Speaker 3: books are often very simple, aren't they sort of deceptively simple?

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Speaker 3: Sometimes something like that Tiger Came to tea. Are you

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Speaker 3: familiar with our story, Judith Carr? Anyway, I think another one,

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Speaker 3: you know, like I don't know, even Cat and the hat.

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Speaker 3: You know, Um and Dad go out, Cat comes around,

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Speaker 3: that you can't really bottle. I guess it's like writing

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Speaker 3: not all of us can can write like a great song.

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Speaker 3: But I mean, I think with anything, it's so the

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Speaker 3: and then you know, you start I don't look at

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Speaker 1: Of failure. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of people say, I'm thinking of writing

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Speaker 3: a children's book. You know, can you give me some advice?

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Speaker 3: I said, the best bit of advice I can give

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Speaker 3: you is to just start trying to write it, because

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Speaker 3: I can't. And they think there's some sort of secret

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Speaker 4: But if you failed as a child author, then that

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Speaker 4: would be terrible. Like you can fail as an author,

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Speaker 4: but if you've failed writing a kid's book, you that

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Speaker 4: that's a lot more jeopardy, isn't it. Really?

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Speaker 3: I suppose that's one way of looking at it.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty easy saying it's not easy, but I look easy.

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Speaker 1: Martin Amis said something that someone said, Martin you, did

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Speaker 3: And he says, I need to have a bottomy? Quite funny,

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean I get it, I get it.

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Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of stuff out there, isn't there.

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Speaker 3: There's some great stuff out there, not so great stuff,

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Speaker 3: like with anything. But all I know, I've I've been

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Speaker 3: writing professionally for about thirty years, writing you know, for television.

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Speaker 3: Fifteen years ago, I started writing books and so I'm

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Speaker 3: So it's like, for me, it's a big part of

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Speaker 1: And you go to sleep dreaming about the plot and.

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Speaker 3: The characters and all kinds of things like that you

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Speaker 1: I think you've made them a bit happier.

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Speaker 4: And they're quoting your material, you know, I always think

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Speaker 4: of like bottomley pots covered in spots, you know, for you,

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Speaker 4: very McCleary, I know that wasn't I know that wasn't.

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Speaker 3: You Very McClary of Donaldson's dare to read that a

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Speaker 3: lot to my to my son, And I love that,

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Speaker 3: that that bedtime is the best time, you know, when

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Speaker 3: you're sharing a book together as a parent, it's the

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Speaker 3: most magical thing. And also like to put on the

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Speaker 3: I love that. It's a little bit of performance. But

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Speaker 3: my son always used to always say to me as

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Speaker 3: well when he was littler. He used to say, Daddy,

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Speaker 3: make up a story for me, And what story want?

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Speaker 1: I want?

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Speaker 3: I'm in the story, and my friends is in the story,

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Speaker 3: and Batman's in the story, and it's setting up of

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Speaker 3: of my head like every every bedtime, and I rather

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Speaker 3: enjoyed the challenge of it. It was quite difficult. That

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Speaker 3: would be very difficult. Yeah, but it was good. It

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Speaker 3: was it was fun and he liked being in the story. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's why he really liked kids.

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Speaker 4: It's all about them, isn't it really when you look.

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Speaker 2: At it's all about sades of grades.

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Speaker 5: My kids to do that, David, it's always great to

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Speaker 5: join you. Tickets to an Audience with David Williams go

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Speaker 5: on sale tomorrow. Buy ticket tech dot com. It's going

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Speaker 5: to be huge. We're so looking forward to you coming

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Speaker 5: to town.

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Speaker 3: Your voice changed a lot there. What do you mean,

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Speaker 3: It's like, are you trying to get ads or something

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Speaker 3: like that?

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Speaker 4: We got to do the news.

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Speaker 1: Really, you're suddenly taking that kind of voice.

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Speaker 4: It's going to that's my that's my rap.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys you're married or.

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Speaker 4: Not not to each other?

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Speaker 2: No, we've worked together. This is our nineteenth year, so

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Speaker 2: we're feud as if we're married.

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Speaker 1: And I could sense the tension.

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Speaker 2: It's not sexual tension.

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Speaker 1: It's just like.

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Speaker 4: Standard everyday tension.

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Speaker 1: David. It's lovely talking to you both. Well, you see

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Speaker 1: when I'm over

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Speaker 4: Yes, David come you then see the new digs