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Speaker 1: Job mission with join Z and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we are thrilled to talk with our next guest.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the world's most treasured entertainers and most

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Speaker 2: loved personalities. He's the host of the Graham Norton show.

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Speaker 2: Do You I Wonder Who it is? He found success

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Speaker 2: not only on stage and screen, but as an author

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Speaker 2: three times over. He has a really compelling new novel

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Speaker 2: called Home Stretch, and to tell us about it, here

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Speaker 2: is the man himself, Graham Norton.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hi guys, how are you?

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Speaker 3: We are great? It's such a great story and it

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Speaker 3: starts off in nineteen eighty seven and a tragedy happens

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Speaker 3: in a small Irish town where the three people are

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Speaker 3: killed in a terrible car accident.

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Speaker 2: Is that a spoiler alert?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's pretty much.

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Speaker 1: It's not that. That's really like almost Pete one. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but there is a big grass and those things, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think in the UK there needs to be a

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, a big motorway pilot before a

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Speaker 1: car crash gets on the news. But their Ireland's smaller.

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Speaker 1: You hear about these terrible accidents. It is young people making,

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Speaker 1: you know, a mistake and we all made stumid mistakes

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Speaker 1: we were young, but that kind of got in my head,

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Speaker 1: that idea of the driver surviving, which they often do,

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Speaker 1: and you just thought like, how the hell do you

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Speaker 1: go on with a life, a life that hasn't even

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Speaker 1: begun yet? What happens to that person? And so that

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Speaker 1: was kind of where I started it.

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Speaker 2: From, how do you go about writing? I know, you've

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Speaker 2: got a fabulous place in the country where you go

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Speaker 2: with your dogs. Do you just lock yourself in and

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Speaker 2: do it and work nine to five? How does it

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Speaker 2: happen for you?

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Speaker 1: Blessed to be thinking that? I too thought that's how

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Speaker 1: I'd write my book. I thought I thought I'd be,

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Speaker 1: you know, at a desk in a window with the

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Speaker 1: wind going through the leaves. But in fact it's not

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Speaker 1: how You know, if you want something done, ask a

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Speaker 1: busy person. So actually when I do most of my

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Speaker 1: writing is when I'm in London and I'm doing the

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Speaker 1: chat show and I'm doing radio and I'm in work mode.

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Speaker 1: When I'm not in work mode in Ireland, yeah, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot, you know, like there's an awful lot of

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Speaker 1: kind of cleaning and changing bulbs and you know, just

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Speaker 1: mad things you would never do just to avoid writing

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Speaker 1: a book.

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Speaker 2: Of course, we've JONESI and I've both written things, and

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Speaker 2: I've never baked so much. And behind my fridge was

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Speaker 2: cleaned so.

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Speaker 1: Thoroughly, absolutely true and like things that really you cleaned

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Speaker 1: out your space draw Wow, but yeah, there you go,

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Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, I heard that.

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Speaker 2: At the book launch, which which is at the London

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Speaker 2: Palladium theater, there were tears because to be in a

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Speaker 2: room with people, to be back on the stage, it

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Speaker 2: was a wonderful thing.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what it was? What's what's kind of

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Speaker 1: special about the awfulness that we're all going through is

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Speaker 1: how precious it makes things we took for granted. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know how we managed to get seven hundred

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Speaker 1: people into the London Palladium now normally at seat cutting

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Speaker 1: two thousand, but we got seven hundred in and it

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Speaker 1: was emotional, and it was emotional for the audience as well,

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Speaker 1: not because ever seeing me, just because they were sat

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Speaker 1: in an auditorium and they were clapping and hearing other

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Speaker 1: people clapping and people, you know, they were laughing together

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Speaker 1: as a big group. And we always enjoyed that, We

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Speaker 1: always knew liked it that's why I rented the theater,

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Speaker 1: but we didn't realize just how precious it was. So

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Speaker 1: it was an amazing and amazing night.

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Speaker 3: And how's things been going with your TV show through

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Speaker 3: all this?

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for asking. We did a kind of weird

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Speaker 1: series in my back bedroom, sucking the kind of late spring.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm back in London and we are as

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Speaker 1: of tomorrow, in fact, I'm heading into an actual television

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Speaker 1: studio and I'm so excited just to have, you know,

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Speaker 1: cameramen and sound guys and lighting guys, and we're going

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Speaker 1: to have some guests in the studio. Some will still

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Speaker 1: zoom in and we're hoping, you know, regulations are changing

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Speaker 1: all the time, so I haven't really I haven't watched

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Speaker 1: the news tonight, so I don't know. But as of

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Speaker 1: a few hours ago, we were still planning to have

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Speaker 1: a small audience. I think we normally have six hundred,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be hoping to have about one hundred, one

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Speaker 2: I've been reading that you're going to have Dolly Parton

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Speaker 2: on the show. I know you in your autobiography, what

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Speaker 2: an usual friendship you have with her? The idea of

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Speaker 2: you two going down the rapids together at Dollywood. As

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Speaker 2: stayed in my mind.

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Speaker 1: Because when we came to film that, we got there

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Speaker 1: before Dolly did, and everyone was going, so, you'll come

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Speaker 1: here and here the with the you know, the inner

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Speaker 1: tube that you'll be in going down the water aft.

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Speaker 1: And then we kept saying, and which, where's the YouTube

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Speaker 1: for Dolly? We ke up looking as like, what Dolly

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Speaker 1: is going to do this? And they no one believed

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Speaker 1: she was going to do it? And lo and behold,

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Speaker 1: you know the Winnebago door flambo and there she was

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Speaker 1: in her custom made wet suit and a special wet

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Speaker 1: look hair do, and she did it. She sat on

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Speaker 1: her tube and we lippd binks to islands in the screen.

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Speaker 1: It was a career. It was a career highlight. Of course,

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Speaker 1: it was a life career.

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Speaker 3: I don't think you need to go on. I think

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Speaker 3: this is it. Where do you go from here?

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Speaker 1: No? No? I honestly, as I said that to you,

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Speaker 1: I was thinking what am I doing each so many

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Speaker 1: years ago?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, you've got a you've got a range of

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Speaker 3: wines and jins, and you've been on a tube ride

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Speaker 3: with Dolly Potton.

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Speaker 1: What of life?

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Speaker 3: Come on? And someone say yeah, people are saying twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty has been bad. I'd say it's all coming up.

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Speaker 3: Graham Norton. Graham's it's such a trait to talk to you.

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Speaker 3: We have such fans. The book is fantastic. Home Stretch

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Speaker 3: is available online and an all Good bookstores now. Graham Norton,

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Speaker 3: thank you, oh.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, guys. Take care of you. Her with joined

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Speaker 1: the and Amanda