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  • It's funny you mentioned writing everywhere.

  • Young David.

  • You were one of those Children you wrote next year's, didn't you?

  • Because I do think there's some Children who just kind of you.

  • But you bothered.

  • I can't remember any other letters in this fun.

  • But I wrote a letter when there was a program.

  • When place schools on you remember place ical.

  • It is a program here for very young Children.

  • It was like set in a fictional house.

  • And then there was a bit, I think, to try and help Children learn to tell the time where there was a clock just before the story.

  • I think there was a clock and you go down in there and the thing beneath the clock would go round and there would be figures on it, and it was quite magical.

  • And then that stopped going round at one point, and I was told, maybe I'm wrong about this, but I was told it was because of a union dispute at the BBC theme.

  • Very the union involved.

  • I mean, I think it was I think I would have been 56 I don't think so.

  • But later was told of the Union.

  • Just anyone's told.

  • It's an argument, an argument between the people who did the thing going round and other people like the people who read the the stories are, you know, on.

  • So I wrote a letter, I think, vacuous Lee, suggesting that they should have some sort of conversation to resolve that I was younger than that.

  • I wrote a letter when she was five to President Reagan.

  • Did what was grinding your gears.

  • She well, she would just popped up one day and said she wanted to write a letter to President Reagan.

  • So the first thing I learned how to read was the newspaper.

  • Probably not surprising in my house.

  • And I read an article one day when I was five in the newspaper over my Cheerios that I'd secretly put honey on top of my mother, wouldn't let me have sugar cereal.

  • She no spoils my Children.

  • That's holding a grudge.

  • So I'm gonna bring up that honey on the way to settle in a little bit more subtle.

  • Read that President Reagan was going on a state visit to what was in West Germany, and he was going to visit Bitburg Cemetery and at Bitburg.

  • There were Nazis buried there, including members of the SS leadership.

  • And I didn't think in American president should be going to pay his respects on behalf of our country to a place where Nazis were buried.

  • How old were you?

  • I was five.

  • But a letter to President Reagan and I said, Give her the honey.

  • The're not fair from the sound of music.

  • Okay.

  • I wrote a letter saying You near Dear Mr President, I've seen the sound of music.

  • The Nazis were not nice people.

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It's funny you mentioned writing everywhere.

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