HOLLY BURN & DALE SHAW - My Urge Overtook Me

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Joining Tom Jackson - recorded in the golden, faraway days before lockdown - to discuss the postcards from their pasts are comedian HOLLY BURN and comedy writer DALE SHAW. We blow the housekeeping on a daytrip to London with the Backstree Boys and Blood Sausage, meet a dead pig in Westphalia, take tea in Hexham and fist the mousse - as they say in darts. Wish you were here?

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HOLLY BURN & DALE SHAW - My Urge Overtook Me

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