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00:26Welcome to the Jonathan Russia and we
00:29have got a fabulous show lined up for you tonight let's have a look at who's
00:33in my green room first up a true national icon I am absolutely delighted to have
00:39him back on the show on one of his rare visits back to the UK it's everyone's
00:43favorite globetrotter Sir Michael Palin alongside Michael a queen of comedy known
00:56for some of the most loved characters on British TV she's about to appear on the
00:59West End stage as well it is the one and only Katherine Tate
01:08plus an absolutely amazing actor who's played everything from an exhausted mum in
01:14motherland to a hard-nosed cop in line of duty it's Anna Maxwell Martin
01:22we've also got this is a mix for here we've got a rapper from Manchester whose songs have
01:28racked up an incredible 3 billion streams he was also one of the most entertaining contestants
01:33from the last series of I'm a celebrity it's eight
01:42and if that weren't enough chatting and performing for us tonight in the studio we have a musician who
01:47blew everyone away with his fabulous renditions of stargazing and nice to meet you at last year's
01:52great Brits it is the fabulously talented Miles Smith
01:59okay so that's the show just before I get my guests out the big news this week is of course
02:04Artemis 2's trip around the moon and back to earth it's exciting isn't it
02:09here's the picture they took of the dark side of the moon look at that isn't that beautiful
02:13that is beautiful a little bit of excellent photo bombing from the earth there just trying to get in
02:18but one of my favorite things about this whole thing was a survey they've carried out of British people
02:23who are asked if they would like to go to the moon one day would you like to see the
02:26results
02:28this was the headline
02:31half of Brits would turn down the off we got the moon have you ever seen a more British survey
02:35than that
02:36the chance to explore one of the most distant places humans have dared to journey to
02:39and half of us have gone now you're right I'll just go
02:43I'll come in the garden
02:44and if you look at the reasons are even better okay here the reason 23% of people just said
02:48not interested
02:51didn't even give a reason the moon no not not for me
02:553% of them said it would be too claustrophobic
02:59which bear in mind this is the same country that's happy to fly Ryanair but for some reason
03:04and 6% said there's nothing to do there
03:08so they're basically holding off until someone builds a moon Wetherspoons and then they're gone
03:14and I don't you know you see some Wetherspoons fans
03:18I don't know if you saw this as well but they had a little mishap earlier on the mission the
03:21toilet malfunctioned three times
03:23so the astronauts had to wee into a bag
03:27so in the end it was a bit like Wetherspoons
03:31I'm joking of course I have to say for legal reasons that the toilet facilities of Wetherspoons are more than
03:37adequate
03:39at least that's what I've been told by Sir Michael Palin
03:44should we get on with the show ladies and gentlemen
03:46we've got some great guests and let's get the first two out now
03:49they are both fantastic writers actors comedians and a genuine pleasure to spend time with it is
03:54Katherine Tate and Sir Michael Palin
04:20you know it's so lovely to have you because both of you have bought so many laughs they've given us
04:24so many laughs over the years
04:25haven't they ladies and gentlemen
04:25amazing
04:27and I'm wondering though it's been I believe it was 40 years or slightly over 40 years that the last
04:32Monty Python film came out
04:33do you still get people coming up and doing Python bits they still talk to you about Python all the
04:37time
04:39yeah they sort of do and they say
04:41well they come up with lines which I don't remember from the show at all
04:46but yeah it's nice to be remembered especially by dare I say a younger generation
04:51yeah
04:52well I mean
04:53thank you
04:54the younger generation are in
04:56but you know
04:57Michael at our age everyone is the younger generation
04:59yeah
05:00don't you boast
05:01you're a boy
05:03you're a baby
05:03you are
05:04well I'm not really
05:06how old are you
05:06I'm 29
05:09I wanted your IQ
05:10I wanted you now
05:13you know comedy is a bit like music in that we don't get bored of it
05:16I think that's why we do like the familiar things again
05:19and I'm wondering do people ask you to do catchphrases or do they throw your old catchphrases at you?
05:23they often ask me to do Little Britain catchphrases
05:27no but for a long time I think when my show came out people assumed Catherine Tate was a character
05:33on Little Britain
05:34so I used to get that lot thank you
05:35and I always I do get asked to do other people's catchphrases and I don't like to disappoint
05:40so which ones do you serve?
05:42we don't do any of them
05:42no but ya but
05:43no but ya but
05:44shut up you don't do nothing about it
05:46thank you
05:46it says no
05:47I do them all
05:48who recognise you the most
05:50what kind of people actually speak to you the most about your old work?
05:53er
05:53I would say my core fan base I've realised
05:57core
05:58core
05:58core
05:59my core
06:01my core with an E
06:02yeah sorry
06:04fan base I think are um
06:06cab drivers
06:07cab drivers
06:09only because
06:10nine times out of ten I'll get into a cab and they will always recognise me
06:14immediately
06:14immediately
06:15I got into a cab recently in Baker Street to go home and as he was going he said oh
06:20I know where that is
06:21yeah yeah Michael Payne lives there
06:25he went on right to the end
06:27we got to the end of the street yeah he's house at the end there nice nice bloke
06:33and I mean
06:33we might tell you about it when he said yeah I had him in my cab what an arsehole
06:36imagine have you got that
06:38okay so Michael I'm thrilled to say has a new book out because Michael is a brilliant writer
06:42okay
06:43this book is at 28th of May and it's Michael Payne in Nigeria
06:47er
06:47you went there and you filmed there why why did you choose to go to Nigeria why Nigeria of all
06:51the countries in Africa
06:52well because we'd gotten to a run of countries that were on the edge of real problems that had real
06:57potential I mean we
06:58this crew and I
07:01and the people at five we started in North Korea and that was really interesting no one
07:06nobody goes there so we thought well actually well they do go there they don't come back
07:14so another country with problem with potential problems as Nigeria 220 million people biggest country in Africa
07:23huge yeah I mean population not size and yet the government is very inefficient and it's not terribly well organized
07:32so go there and find out what it's like on the ground because you never get that from newspapers or
07:37news broadcasts yeah if you can and I've been very very lucky to go there myself and then you see
07:43a new dimension and what are you stand out memories when you you because obviously it was an amazing journey
07:48and I saw the show you made about it but yeah things that you you think back and really treasured
07:52well there was a bizarre thing we went to the north to Kano which is the Islamic side of Nigeria
07:58and the emir of Kano agreed to meet me for an interview you know he's the big man runs it
08:03and so I turn up in the morning and it's not just an interview he's he's organized what they call
08:10a dirba which is all the local chiefs come along on horseback in full dress their armies paraded out and
08:18all that sort of thing there's there's music and I you know they were all
08:22looking absolutely spectacular yeah and there I was just a bit like this and it's slightly worse you know I
08:28had a new pair of jeans on but you know that was not enough but Michael here's the thing I
08:33wonder whether because you go to you've been to so many extraordinary places is a is a regular family holiday
08:38enough for you if you go away do you do you go on holidays like with your family do you
08:42just have a normal kind of beachy or pool yeah yeah we always go away for a week a year
08:47we get a nice villa somewhere and take all the family and four grandchildren and all that
08:52yeah how lovely to be a grandfather as well yeah my little granddaughter rose is very very sweet so I'm
08:59sitting there reading proofs or whatever I'm doing upside down
09:02um and uh she jumps into the pool right beside me and splashes everywhere and then she comes out in
09:09a bit and says hello grandpa are you all right
09:14and then she goes in the water again plash and go
09:18Kevin what about you not holiday so much what are you doing in your spare time if you're unwinding away
09:22from work and we're going to get you a new project a mini bird what what what what keeps you
09:26engaged with the world what keeps you happy what do you do
09:29tick tock shop
09:32oh come on round of applause for china
09:40I mean genuinely five packages today arrived so you get you get advertise something and then it's yes
09:48everything so what kind of um okay without getting too personal what's my algorithm what do they serve up
09:56oh hilarious this is what I this is what my algorithm is um exercise things for the over 40
10:03oh
10:04um makeup skin care and bizarrely because I've made the algorithm think I like cooking when actually I just
10:14like watching other people cook because cooking enrages me yeah enrages me so you're not a home no I'm not
10:22a home
10:22your body I'm not a homemaker I'm not a cook you're genuinely amazing children raising cereal
10:30genuinely yes no I really don't like that but I get a lot of um I but I like buying
10:36stuff for people who like to cook
10:38all right okay so you see the products and I guess gimmicks and stuff gimmicks did you know there's a
10:43thing called a tomato knife
10:45well I thought that was just called a knife no oh how wrong you are there's a specific knife yes
10:50a tomato knife is
10:52a sir a slightly serrated edge really important if you try and cut tomatoes without a serrated edge
10:58straight in your face exactly exactly thank you Michael
11:04no that's okay yes a bit of mine thank you were I ever to use this knife which I haven't
11:09because I don't like tomatoes
11:13but it is I'm almost guaranteed were I to cut into it it would be perfect can I have it
11:21if you're not using it yes you can
11:22and where do you keep this I mean oh I've got I mean almost a storage unit three air fry
11:29I'm a bit worried about three because I forget I bought them and I'm not opening them or using them
11:34yeah yeah yeah who wants to be without one you're kidding Catherine is can be soon any day now on
11:40the western stage in what sounds to me like a
11:42phenomenal new play called Oh Mary on the 27th of April onwards at the Trafalgar Theatre because it was a
11:48big hit in New York
11:49it's kind of a big hit on Broadway tell us about Mary tell us about the thing you're in Oh
11:52Mary is a
11:55a fictional account of the last few weeks leading up to the assassination of
12:04Abraham Lincoln and I play Mary Todd Lincoln the first lady and it is a
12:12a story told through the lens not of accuracy okay so it's played for laughs it's played it's played for
12:23laughs it's a big riotous uproarious joyous romp wonderful fest and I am so genuinely
12:34feel so genuinely honored to be playing this part it's not that long off I said it's 27th of April
12:38and
12:39are you excited so excited yeah genuinely the first time I saw it and I had no idea I was
12:46going to do it I
12:46was just there as a punter and my my husband and my and I was with my husband and as
12:52we we got to our feet
12:54to give um to give a standing ovation to the absolutely fantastic Mason Alexander
13:02Parker who's currently playing Mary I literally went they better fucking ask me to do this
13:10because it was such a thing that it was like oh my gosh I would just love to see to
13:16just be in this
13:17place and it's it's one of those shows that you know if you've not seen it you can't really explain
13:21it
13:21yeah and also I will say this isn't it's not gonna be for everyone but if you don't like it
13:29I don't want to know
13:30yes I love the fact you're giving out a warning why are you giving out a warning it's not a
13:34warning I'm
13:34not I'm obviously not saying don't come and see yourself I know you said I know what book of Mormon's
13:39amazing but not for everyone book of Mormon is a very good example yes thank you because it's
13:46absolutely fantastic and when I saw this I actually said this is the funniest thing I've ever seen on stage
13:53since since book of Mormon there we go how about that is what I'm saying we're going to take a
13:57break
13:57we're down to our way because that makes me be joined by Anna Maxwell Martin see you in a couple
14:01of minutes
14:12welcome back to the show let's get my next guest out of the show
14:16I'm absolutely delighted she's here she's been in so many brilliant shows in fact as soon as you
14:20see her name in the credits you know it's going to be good it's the fantastic Anna Maxwell Martin
14:56thank you so much for coming on I'm a huge fan if you know that I'm a big fan of
15:00your work
15:02because you've been in so many great shows motherland of course is huge
15:08line of duty amazing I wonder what it when you're out about I've been asked other guys what do you
15:13get
15:13most recognized for what do people most want to speak to you about yeah motherland motherland is
15:17the one yeah I think it's a comedy thing as well it's just more immediate for people line of duty
15:22was a
15:23moment for a bit but then just people just like shouting bitch at me in the street and and you
15:28have
15:28children do they like seeing you in motherland they don't watch it no they don't watch they find it
15:36abhorrent mom doing her work no it's well yeah they don't watch any of my work yeah but I think
15:45it's
15:45because Julia embarrasses herself all the time she does yeah it's mega cringe isn't it and they don't
15:52like seeing that we're using the phrase mega cringe I imagine they're younger no I just know all the
15:57hip well we just decided to stop and then Amanda land was the offshoot of that and that's the show
16:06to be celebrating now we had like an amazing time I love doing that show I love playing the character
16:12and and all the cast like we're very close but it's amazing and you're in touch with them I guess
16:17do you
16:17have a whatsapp group because when I was in celebrity traitors we still have a whatsapp group although it's
16:21died down quite a lot it's mainly just me saying hello but what about the motherland group is that
16:28still yeah we have a mini one um I text the girls individually but then Paul and Di and I
16:34have a
16:34mini one because they're like my you know busy friends from the show would any of you do by the
16:39way celebrity traitors have any of been asked to do celebrity traitors you've been up well you asked
16:45oh yeah you're I would have been with you darling you would have been in that series yes and so
16:50what you
16:50didn't say no because you know I was going in it was a group yes but you were you're very
17:03good at
17:03playing uncompromising characters like very kind of stern quite scary boss bitches yes that would be the
17:10phrase but I never said it do people think you're gonna be like that in real life do they assume
17:13you're gonna walk in like that we were talking about it earlier because Michael's also played
17:18um a torturer and things like that and it's just sort of quite a jolly thing to do is a
17:22very nice
17:23torture yeah but you know what's interesting is Michael is considered widely to be one of the nicest men
17:28in show business one of the great misconceptions that misconception that's followed you around for decades
17:37really so shut up what about you Catherine what sort of misconceptions do people have about you
17:44my husband was on a plane we all know what plane is a long flight he starts talking to a
17:53lady they
17:54both start talking to a member of the cabin crew and the lady says have you ever had any sort
17:59of
17:59well-known people on the flight and then the guy says we had share on the flight she was fantastic
18:09she
18:09looked fantastic she was absolutely fantastic and then the woman said anyone else and the cabin crew guy
18:16went a couple of weeks ago Catherine Tate so my husband's like because obviously he doesn't know there's a
18:23connection yeah and did you think you're having an affair flying off to another country
18:28who your husband no
18:31why not explain this right no you've blocked me
18:34what are you doing on that plane two weeks ago where are you going no no no no because he
18:38lives in America and I live here
18:40right so we're we're always you were going to see him or you were coming back from seeing him
18:44I've obviously not explained myself well my husband is on a plane coming over to see me
18:52so who are you having an affair with
18:56I'm not on the plane
18:57I'm not on the plane
18:58oh you're not on the plane I thought you were on the plane
19:01come on I started the story rewind the tape
19:05I'm sorry my husband's on a plane
19:10he's chatting to a lady at the back he's not having an affair he's chatting to a lady at the
19:15back they both start talking
19:17to the cabin crew the cabin crew said a couple of weeks ago we had Catherine Tate snogging another fella
19:25and the lady says oh my god I absolutely love her what was she like and the guy says awful
19:38here's the thing my husband's telling me this and I'm like right so what did you say
19:43yeah what did you say then and he's like I didn't say anything
19:48what right and very very for a brief amount of time I was like I don't think you're the man
19:54for me
19:54anyway the upshot of this is my husband for some unknown reason says why what did she do
20:07his response the whole flight she sat there didn't make anyone laugh once
20:24well I'm pretty sure when Cher was there she wasn't busting up and down the arse singing if I could
20:29turn back time
20:32Anna is in a brand new show I'm pleased to say Anna makes it has a brand new show which
20:37doesn't start until the 29th of May
20:38on Apple TV and I've seen they sent me links I've seen and I'm hooked it's an amazing show because
20:44it's
20:44kind of science fiction but it's sort of real world really and it's like how do they describe
20:48that it's an alternate telling of the moon landing and the space race so it's set in Russia in 1969
20:55behind the Iron Curtain and then there's the spacey bit where they're setting people up and then there's
21:00the whole what it's called Star City and that's the hub of the space program and in this version Russians
21:08land on the moon before Americans don't they so it's an amazing twist on reality but yeah your
21:12character she's not nice no she's not nice no she has a gun she tortures people that's not nice okay
21:20but do you look for that when you're playing a character was your first okay there she is she's human
21:24she's no yeah you can see you see why I said she's not nice but do you like playing her
21:30do you like
21:30playing that kind of yeah no I love her I really love her she's a real badass she's horrible
21:39she's a control freak manipulate master manipulator she's great let's show you a tip as I said it's
21:47Star City it's on Apple TV from the 29th of May have a look at this
21:55I take this step for my country for my people and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life
22:04knowing that today is one small step on the journey that will someday take us all to the stars
22:21it's dripping um you're as I said you're real kind of like you know a tough cookie in this thing
22:27and
22:28you you're not short of not shy of using weapons as well you're firing a gun in this is you
22:33didn't
22:33fire a gun in line of duty I don't think ever oh I was terrible at the jeopardy in line
22:37of duty I was
22:37actually with the the director's like this is lame I can't I'm not very good at playing jeopardy so
22:42actually in the line of duty when everyone came in with guns I just sort of stood by no I
22:47didn't I
22:47just stood by the filing cabinet and they said we need more from you we need more from I can't
22:54do it
22:54but I do have a gun and it's actually I have a gun holster which had a polystyrene gun in
23:01it
23:02which was much better because guns are really heavy yeah I was exhausted carrying around the
23:07real gun I was actually exhausted holding the real gun did they give you gun training I had to I
23:12have
23:12to go mad with the gun at the end they didn't give me training um but that's so tiring um
23:18so I had to
23:20do that in the end yeah I've got to say that wasn't the most convincing no that was a little
23:25bit no that was a bit wobbly I'm not like that I had no training I had no training yeah
23:30I'm not
23:31very good at it so you've been to us I think Katherine have you yes I was on my first
23:36year at um drama
23:37school we did an exchange with it to a theater in in red square and I was there when the
23:43military
23:43coup took over and Gorbachev for three days wow was ousted um in 91 yeah which was unbelievable I mean
23:52it was terrible and we didn't have mobile phones and um all my mum knew was I was in Moscow
23:57and there
23:57was a military coup oh my god and tanks were in red square yeah and the thing I really really
24:02remember
24:03though was we were watching the news the state news and at the point at which obviously something
24:10had happened it cut to swan lake the news cut to a ballet yeah and I saw that and my
24:19mum who I
24:20couldn't get in touch with who I knew would have been absolutely going crazy went to broadcasting house
24:27and said my daughter is in Russia and I need to get a message and know that she's okay and
24:35to be fair
24:35the world service in Moscow found me wow isn't that amazing oh she knew the theater I was at
24:42and so someone arrived and said your mother needs to know you're okay wow yeah and isn't that amazing
24:57but you know star city is it's so much fun I wonder did you struggle with the Russian name so
25:01do you
25:02speak any Russian oh god the Russian again someone else was absolutely shit at I mean I really tried it
25:09sounds like I don't try I do try with guns but I tried uh with jeopardy um I did try
25:15with the Russian
25:16names but I did spend some time in a dubbing studio re-saying them did you do it in a
25:24Russian with a
25:25Russian accent no no because I remember when we did um death of Stalin it was kind of agreed at
25:30the very
25:31beginning that we wouldn't do no we did any false um foreign accents so you'd have you know Yorkshiremen
25:37and that's being Russian generals and uh yes and American actors being sort of you know but I quite
25:42like shows when they they do the Russian accent they give it a go would you like another vodka
25:47yeah vodka yes vodka vodka is that the only word you can say
26:01uh stay tuned because we're going to take a break but up next we'll be joined by H
26:05plus Miles Smith we'll be chatting and performing live in the studio see you after the break
26:20welcome back to the show let's get my next guest out and he's an incredible rapper
26:24and he won even more fans thanks to his stint on I'm a celebrity you know who I'm talking about
26:28it
26:28is of course H
26:50you look I love that I love the bling going on there that's like the proper lamp look
26:55going on there last time I was on telly I was on I was in the jungle didn't look my
26:58best no you
26:59didn't no would you care for a water or some vodka do I call you H or do I call
27:06you by your your
27:07real name Harrison what do you prefer H I prefer H to be honest only really my mum calls me
27:11Harrison
27:11to be honest I like people who pretend that they know me right to other people but I don't mind
27:16it
27:17it's not a bad tactic yeah I've got respect for it and when did you become H as opposed to
27:21Harrison when did you first start using H's H weren't even a rap name I was called H yeah anyway
27:26I just when you were a kid I used to like doing graffiti and stuff oh not yeah and then
27:33so you did you do a big H so I just done a hate chat first and I thought this
27:36is boring this is
27:37it's over in two seconds yeah do I mean so I just done some digging and it turns out the
27:43way you spell
27:43the letter is A-I-T-C-H
27:48you know you don't actually pronounce it H yeah that's where I'm the life no I think we know
28:00I mean what were you doing though back then when you were a kid what were you doing with your
28:03spare
28:03time because I guess you hadn't thought that would be your career what do you know
28:07when I left school I went to college to do to do sport and whatnot
28:11what kind of sport? someone laughed when I said that then
28:15I'm an athlete previous to all this yeah were you genuinely an athlete?
28:21a little bit yeah no I'm lying I'm lying I'm not going to lie I was a good kickboxer
28:27I was a good kickboxer see kickboxer that's tough yeah and when I was super young I actually
28:31I've actually won medals um at in gym on the rings gymnastics wow
28:42and so why did you give up the kickboxing if you if you were quite good at it
28:48I thought I was dead hard yeah I thought I was hard yeah
28:52I've been got punched and kicked in the face multiple times but one time I was in the ring and
28:56someone
28:57threw a kick at me and he didn't his foot didn't get me but he obviously didn't cut his toenails
29:02yeah
29:04I'm not joking and the man's toenail had sliced me down my face
29:10that's one of the most disgusting things I've had in my entire life
29:13yeah it's bad that I'm a dirty toenail yeah I'm presuming it was there and never have I
29:17stepped foot in the ring ever again since that day what did you do before you were famous
29:21Catherine what kind of jobs did you have or ambitions uh was a receptionist and um
29:28the it was an american company and um he was a little bit gruff this man um and he came
29:36to me and said do you do windows right and i'm thinking i mean mate i know i haven't got
29:46a lot of skills but
29:48am i gonna and the thing is it was a massive american company floor-to-ceiling windows right
29:55and i'm thinking but it was just i'd started and i went well i mean i can and he went
30:03well do you or
30:04don't you and i said well um sure but i'll need a ladder
30:14and it was apparently something called word for windows
30:17yes yes yes let's go back to you yes uh h came forth on i'm a celebrity last year
30:26frankly i was surprised you didn't win it you won everyone over did you watch him on it yeah
30:31we love me and the kids loved it yeah yeah uh did you enjoy you must have had fun as
30:35well i know yeah
30:36a little challenge but yeah yeah no it was good it was like the best worst thing i've ever done
30:39in my
30:39life yeah i mean what are the best things are the worst things best things is like you kind of
30:45learn to
30:45like not care about the outside world you're just here with 11 different people you've got no phone
30:50because no was that the first time as an adult that you've been without your phone for any period of
30:53time for the longest period of time i kind of liked it though i kind of needed it a little
30:57bit
30:58but sometimes it's mind games because you think you don't want contact with the outside world until
31:02you like walk into a trial and you and you because you've not spoke to anyone else for so long
31:07you
31:07you're asking the security guard or whoever the cameraman questions that you're not actually really
31:12bothered about you just want to talk to someone so you just want to come what sort of things would
31:15you ask so you're asking the cameraman like you're all right mate like what time do you finish today
31:23and this one i swear to god this is what he does he goes and looks to the other way
31:28because they're not
31:29they're not allowed to talk to you wow so you must be filled when it was over yeah 100 and
31:33you know how
31:34hard it is to clean yourself properly i don't i don't know whether i will ever find out
31:40with boxers on in the shower and do they tell you you can't go naked in there no but i'm
31:45not i'm not
31:46going to trust darren who works behind the camera because you've not got no contact with the outside
31:52world you think i don't i could be on in on front front of the paper today with my ass
31:57out and i don't
31:57even know did going on that did it change your fan base enormously because i made a lot of people
32:02who
32:03maybe had heard of you i'd like heard of you but i didn't really know yeah yeah then got to
32:06see you as
32:07who you are yeah it kind of turned into like like people be coming up to me and instead of
32:13going
32:13like oh my son loves you or my daughter loves you it's more like i love you no like this
32:18i'm not even
32:18joking this group of like 65 year old women all asking for my number the other day asking for your
32:24number that's not just for a photo with you no i was in traffic i was sat at a red
32:28light and they
32:28was walking out of a car park and they've all like looked and started shouting me so i've gone
32:32hi you all right and they're all saying oh we loved you in the jungle and usually before the
32:36jungle it was oh my grandson loves you yeah yeah but it was different this time and then one of
32:39them was like can we have you can i get your number so then i started laughing and she didn't
32:44find it very funny wow so you think there was a romantic interest yeah we yeah yeah yeah it was
32:50it was quite um tense actually
32:55was it yeah a bit like a sexual freesome yeah it was a bit like starting sweating in the car
33:02and i guess it's had a big impact on the rest of your family as well yeah definitely my sister
33:06when i got back from australia did my sister said to me i can't go to school on monday i
33:11said why
33:12i said you're gonna have to fall into the security guard yeah i'm getting to take me to school i'm
33:15too famous for all this this is it's gracie and grace who just seems lovely and i could see how
33:21close you two are it's a really lovely thing to see and i believe you you've helped your
33:24grandfather out in some ways that way granddad was he's one of their money can't sit still
33:28and um i came to his house one day and i said you need to retire you need to retire
33:32and i came
33:33with a load of cash and i said to him there you go you retire take my nana out wherever
33:37you want to go
33:38that's probably not forget about it because then about two weeks later i've gone to the house and
33:48he's answered the door in a full-blown work uniform he's still working yeah so he went he retired
33:53took my money off me and then applied for a new job wow that's a smart grandfather he didn't give
33:59me
33:59money back either no and i'm not even lying and he openly sees this uh uh h has taken part
34:08in a new
34:09tv show he appears in one episode of a new tv show which anna's done as well but we're going
34:13to talk
34:13about uh because i haven't seen your one but i know yours is imminent it's called the assembly i don't
34:17know if you've seen the show yeah it's a really lovely show uh in which a celebrity will allow themselves
34:22to be interviewed by a group of people who can ask just about anything they want when they asked you
34:26why did you why did you say yes um loads of reasons but really because because of my sister really
34:32i've just got a little soft spot for obviously people with disabilities and doing anything i can to
34:37help out sort of thing and i was just going through a little thing as well i'm just like losing
34:40faith in
34:41humanity thinking everyone's a bit of a knobhead so i thought let me go and do that and i walked
34:46out of
34:47the assembly with absolute restored faith yeah it's a very wide spectrum people are kind of essentially
34:53neurodiverse people yeah is the group do you get to know what questions are going to be asked no that
34:58that's also the thing they don't tell you so you just get thrown in the deep end and they can
35:02ask
35:02you absolutely everything nothing's off the table nothing's off the table because anna you've done
35:05this as well haven't you yeah how did you find it yeah it's a lovely experience it's just like how
35:09h
35:10described it it's um but actually you you you're having a chat with lots of people you get to know
35:15them
35:15a bit as well in the course of the the more the afternoon that you're doing it and you share
35:20lots of stuff and um it's just a really lovely experience yeah well uh your episode h is going
35:27to be on itv and itvx on wednesday the 22nd of april i don't you've seen any of this have
35:32you not no
35:33okay so this will be your first look as well this is the clip from h on the assembly
35:38hello nikola
35:44calm down
35:50what is your pin number
36:03nikola yes i really don't want to lie to you but i can't give you my pin number right
36:12only because everyone else is in the room
36:20last year h uh climbed kilimanjaro to raise money for down syndrome association which is
36:31wonderful
36:34and you know is it as was it as tough as you expected to get to the top yeah it
36:40was tough
36:40uh it was um do you know what it's just look as well though i was looking at that the
36:46altitude
36:46didn't affect me whatsoever i'll be dead on this i don't do this anymore so i'm allowed to say it
36:51now i was up going up there with the vape in my hand but i don't vape anymore so i
36:56don't condone
36:56none of that yeah it's very bad yeah um but but then i've got a friend i've got a friend
37:03who
37:04as say for example never smoked never drank always in the gym and he didn't make it yeah he had
37:11to
37:11get the doctor to come bring him down you know his head looked like a red balloon wow yeah yeah
37:16yeah
37:16yeah you've got put on the oxygen tank i can laugh about it now i was crying my eyes out
37:19at the time
37:19but now now you love laughing at his big red head yeah yeah but you made it right to the
37:25top didn't
37:25yeah made it right to the top so amazing congratulations thank you but again it's minding
37:29you know what i'm really glad i've came on here you've made me look really good yeah
37:38hey i haven't you have made yourself look really good oh thanks because what you do is really
37:46but yeah that that whole experience was was absolutely mental have you uh have you climbed kilimanjaro
37:53michael i haven't no but i've got near to it and the local maasai people were talking about the
37:59mountain and um i said i've said you must have been there many times you must be really good at
38:05it
38:05they said no he never never been up there so i said why not i said well it's cold
38:13uh okay we're going to take another break h what a pleasure it's been a pleasure having h here and
38:17he's going to stick around along with all my other lovely guests anna's still here kathleen's still
38:21here and michael is still here as well but don't go away because up next we'll be joined by the
38:25fabulous miles smith and he'll be performing at the end of the show as well see you after the break
38:40welcome back to the show let's have my next guest out and i'm excited we've got to this part of
38:44the
38:45show because he's a brilliant singer-songwriter he won the rising star award at the brits as you
39:09nice to meet you tonight baby we can go dance get up off our feet she said this life ain't
39:18forever one song here
39:21together then let's lay it on repeat we can dance we can dance all night
39:28are what we call bangers ladies and gentlemen it's miles smith
39:50i see you come out with the mug is this to keep your voice uh warmed up for the singing
39:53absolutely otherwise it's gonna be a horror show no well i'm sure it won't be um we listened to some
39:59of your tracks there one of your biggest songs stargazing was there as well that's been huge
40:02i know i believe that track was on barack obama's summer playlist yeah it was uh it's absolutely mad
40:08scenes i can't believe it to be fair i found out i was on the toilet um true story and
40:14and how long
40:15does a song like that take because that's been a global hit oh thank you uh well presumably you i
40:20guess
40:20you knew that or have i just given you it's hard to tell you though i'm from loot and so
40:24i mean
40:25it reached in london is a global hit the fact that boak obama's got it on his playlist i think
40:29i think was that yeah and so that takes you how long do you spend writing a track like that
40:34that was
40:34i mean that was unique that was like a 15 minutes sort of like 15 minutes yeah yeah it was
40:39uh when you
40:40feel something and i'm sure you could relate when it just i can relate yeah i'm sure all of you
40:44can
40:44relate well how long did your biggest hit take 14 minutes
40:49the lumberjack song was was written in 10 minutes wow the end of the day
41:02be careful or i'll sing it classic so your songs are really blown up aren't they in the last couple
41:08of years yeah i mean it feels to the outside observer it's happened very quickly but of course you've been
41:12working for a long while on it um i guess now do you find yourself has it been since the
41:17brits for
41:18example you get recognized a lot more uh i get recognized like a little bit here and there uh
41:23it's funny being recognized because like sometimes people are like oh you really look like myles smith
41:28yeah like sick because this is sort of your stage look which is very it's kind of it's not like
41:34blingy
41:35and flashy no i'm not saying there's anything wrong with it i'm just saying it's refreshing that's
41:51lovely as well myles you're touring america this year yes i believe that's a big thing have you
42:07done them you've played over there but you haven't done a proper tour have you uh i've done a i've
42:11done
42:11a couple tours not as big as probably this guy but yeah done a few tours of america now but
42:15this is
42:15going to be the biggest the big one because who are you touring with i'm touring with ed sheeran yeah
42:23he's a big fan of yours isn't he yeah ed's uh over the last couple years we've grown really close
42:28friends and you know playing with him on the weekends and doing my headline stuff in in the
42:31weekdays it's going to be a bit of a fun trip he's a lovely man he's so um supportive and
42:36generous
42:36to other artists in there he so helps to bring people on and up doesn't he absolutely my ginger prince
42:40yeah you've worked with him as well haven't you yeah man yeah um he's generous i i complimented
42:47the trainers that he had on he had a pair of louis vuitton boots on that i've never seen before
42:51ever
42:52and i said they're so nice that was it that's all i said and then about two weeks after them
42:56louis
42:57vuitton boots was at my door wow wow and he doesn't ask for anything in return um oh god
43:04my mind i didn't mean it that way i'm not trying to suggest you and his grooming musicians
43:13averse i suppose yeah yeah yeah but but also i've done a music video with him the same video
43:19and uh it comes to think of it i did he was wearing my coat he bought you yeah he
43:25asked to wear it or
43:26he just took it or i can't remember he was a bit drunk at that point but yeah i've not
43:30i've not
43:30seen the cult since i think ed sheeran's still holding you people are just scamming you all the
43:37time your grandfather you're taking the piss michael has not collaborated with ed sheeran but didn't
43:45he find out that elvis presley was a monty python fan as well this was the most remarkable piece of
43:50information i've ever had in my life elvis presley who was you know beyond godlike when i was growing up
43:55yeah the king heartbreak hotel and all that just changed music properly music for me
43:59and then to hear later that elvis it was it was towards the end of his life and he was
44:05fairly
44:05heavily sort of um and medicated but he did he did like the night to say me and that was
44:13just quite
44:14unbelievable to hear elvis say that was a nice moment but you know katherine i know uh george michael
44:24one of the loveliest men among the most talented men in the music business he was a big fan of
44:28yours
44:28wasn't he he did a sketch with me of course he did a sketch with me genuinely i've never known
44:34a
44:34reaction like this and we were filming in front of a live audience and it was we were going to
44:39reveal
44:39him as the patient and genuinely the ovation for him was seven minutes long wow seven minutes we had to
44:48just
44:48stop wow because people were going mad they were losing their minds obviously from what i know about
44:53oh mary i think he'd have liked it oh my goodness he would have loved oh mary especially because
44:59it is the story of mary todd lincoln told through the eyes and the lens of mary todd lincoln
45:06the first lady of the united states being a frustrated cabaret singer so that's where we're at
45:14do you know what i mean that's where the tonally where we're at and i think um oh my goodness
45:19he
45:19would have absolutely loved it he would have he would have adored it yeah let's go back to miles
45:23what was the first song you work you remember the first song what inspired you to write your first song
45:28there's a song called dream girl yeah let me guess
45:46i'm gonna say i'm guessing you were young and it was a girl you yeah the look of it was
45:51it was
45:51what was her name oh this is national tv you don't have to say don't say no does she know
45:57though that
45:58you got your first summer no no no we're not doing that but does this this young woman know that
46:04she inspired oh my whole school does yeah yeah i'm not howdy did you play it at school i did
46:10oh yeah
46:12but did you record it first or do you go in and sing it live assembly oh yeah it was
46:20yeah no that was hey miles yeah just give us a little bit of it
46:28i bet it has the words girl and dream it does have dingo uh let me try remember uh it
46:34was
46:37it was half night winter night and it felt cold it didn't feel right so i texted again
46:47just to say i need you in my life every day
46:52oh lovely a lovely song for a young person to write hold on but are you telling me
47:02that that didn't work yeah it did not work it did not work no you did not i'm from luton
47:10where's she from luton
47:13it must be not weird but i suppose i suppose it's very nice but is it strange hearing your songs
47:19when you're out and about when you don't expect them when you hear someone playing on the radio or
47:23from a shop or something yeah no the experience is is there's it varies you know sometimes it's like oh
47:28my god this is amazing and i feel really part of it you know you hear it on someone's phone
47:32or you
47:32hear it in the car but there's times like i don't know my my virgin media wi-fi broke down
47:38and i was on
47:39hold for an hour and a half and i get through to lady and she's like so uh i'm just
47:44going to put
47:44you on hold boom oh i was like i hate myself uh miles it's been lovely talking to you i'm
47:56excited
47:56you're going to perform first now and you're going to play my mess from the album my mess my heart
48:00my
48:01life is out on the 12th of june over there miles lovely to meet you continue to get yourself ready
48:10okay uh will you join me in saying thank you to all my guests tonight ladies and gentlemen the
48:14fabulous sir michael palin the wonderful cartoon kate the brilliant anna maxwell martin and the one and
48:20only h right there okay uh this is the last show of this series so thank you for watching over
48:28the past
48:29few weeks we'll be back in the new year with the next series but now with my mess from his
48:33album my
48:33mess my heart my life which is out on the 12th of june it is the fabulous miles smith
48:38i was born into a fractured family where workers start a war
49:01lost my tongue when i spoke my teeth she grabbed my shirt and he bruised my cheeks said man
49:10had to go toe to toe with a boy 13
49:19sorry i was raised just to do as i'm told and i hate the way that i'm still like this
49:32i'm still learning a walk on my own
49:41i tried changing clothes i'll wear even from my friends off and died my head but my roots run deep
49:51and the pain in my heart's still there
49:58and i'm still not able to open the demon to the people
50:04that i love is a bird and it's a cloud and it always seems to follow me around
50:16sorry i'm so goddamn indecisive
50:21i was raised just to do as i'm told
50:25and i hate the way that i'm still like this
50:30i'm still learning a walk on my own
50:57this is my mesh my heart my life
51:03this is my mesh my heart my life
51:07This is my miss, my heart, my life
51:11This is my miss, my heart, my life
51:15This is my miss, my heart, my life
51:20This is my miss, my heart, my life
51:24This is my miss, my heart, my life
51:28This is my life
51:35Sorry, I'm so goddamn indecisive
51:39I was raised just to do as I'm told
51:43And I hate the way that I'm still like this
51:47I'm still learning to walk on my own
52:29I'm still learning to walk
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