I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I have another chat with writer/performer David Mitchell about long walks, fax machines, beards, Bird-watching, upstarts, and Disneyland.
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