I

remember bumping into Tom Jones in Cardiff.

He gave me the same deal, two-for-one.

How's the tour going, Al?

It's going fantastic, mate, and it's in Galway tonight.

What I need you to do is come to the Bloomsbury, and it's on November the 4th, right?

Hello, Al Pitcher.

Greetings, greetings.

How are you? I'm very well, how are you? I'm alright.

I once had a microphone that they taped to my forehead.

You know those ones?

It sounds like

a lie.

Get your mind out of there.

You're going to have to go and cook Tony in the hole now because I can't have what he's having.

You've just gone from the championship to the premiership here.

You're in a different league.

I, if you served it, like when I was inside, right? I've done time.

I've done time.

um for a crime i didn't do um but they um they basically they give if you're listening island that wasn't me doing that voice there's only about four countries left um so yeah if they serve it up you eat what you eat what you get but if you're going out and i'm going right i'll have a chai latte i do not expect anybody near me to say i'll have the same as him what if they're

Facebook site is...

So, yeah, come along.

Oh, in Wales?

Been up there in Wales, yeah, mid Wales.

And I, it was at a horse show, right? I took it to the horse show and there was this little dog there with a hat.

I,

yeah, so, and I asked to take a photo.

I didn't ask the dog.

Don't talk to dogs, do I? And they said, I said, oh, and the dog went like that, two barks for, yes.

And it was away.

I just live here.

Matthew, please don't call Bilswells fools.

They were lovely people.

I'm backing you up.

who had ridden a horse for five years.

She'd fallen off it three times.

But did she get it back up on that horse? Yes, she did.

It might as well be a made-up fact about the world rather than just Wales.

The

three of us, we can be the triangle of hope, right? And when one of those walls of the triangle disappears, say 40 just falls over.

Why me? Right? If that falls down, we're not a triangle again.

Let's be the three.

Let's unite and make like this six music, this moment, just before one o'clock, three Sunday, a moment where people get inspired.

They see the photos and they believe.

All right, I'm going to end the topic there, and I'm going to say after that speech, that's fine.

I hope you like the photo of Mumbai, because I've just been there.

right? Yeah.

There's a Swedish mile, which is 10 kilometers, right? Go the Swedes, right? There's probably about 5,000 women running around the park at the moment across from our balcony.

Yeah.

Bit of a gust of wind.

It's taken the old chasing gown up.

About 3,000 have gone...

And the ginger ninja had a look.

Here we go.

right? Yeah.

There's a Swedish mile, which is 10 kilometres, right? Go the Swedes, right? There's probably about 5,000 women running around the park at the moment across from our balcony.

Yeah.

Bit of a gust of wind.

It's taken the old dressing gown up.

About 3,000 have gone, and the ginger ninja had a look.

Here we go.

That is a worrying sense of defeatism from our audience.

I don't know.

I normally, you know, I'm the great riffer.

People know me as that, and I just kind of go straight for the song title.

Yeah.

I don't really think about it.

Talk to us about this week's picture.

This week's picture was taken in Brixton on Wednesday.

It was a great first day of the season, wasn't it, for all clubs.

Oh, and then I had a cracking fish and chips.

It's just life, you know.

I feel like I'm just running through dandelions at the moment, just naked and just free.

Dandelions? I'm not egging that up.

I'm not, because you guys are feeling the pressure.

Oh, that's lovely.

And for some reason, I've got right into it.

I don't

know.

Does it go up to 40, does it? 49, I think.

Well, you know, that's controversial, isn't it? Old 50 must be sitting there going, give

Anyway, quickly describe, a recap for the podcast listeners, what your photo is of this week, because it was a good photo and I didn't describe it very well.

Okay, this week's photo is probably arguably the saddest photo I've ever taken, right? It's just, I don't even ride a bike, but the idea of turning back up and having no wheels, no nothing, right? Handlebars.

But the criminals, the crims, right? What we used to call them.

Aww.

Talk to us about the photo that is up on the website this week and then I'll tell you what options we've got from last week.

Well, it's in the middle of the big cricket series, and the rain's been terrible.

So I caught this guy, right, took a photo, and he was just improvising.

But he was a bit one of those characters, you know, one of those people that you meet, and he'd just put a plastic bag over his head and went, that'll do.

And I like

But before I tell people what we've gone for, Al, have you got anything else to say?

Well, I've got...

I don't want to, you know, these people that come on your show and plug stuff like 40 in there.

What's the picture this week? Where did you take it?

I took it in Singapore.

There's this beautiful tropical forest just outside Singapore and you're not supposed to feed the monkeys and these little monkeys run at you.

They're like little

I can't help but feel it didn't go as well as you would have hoped.

Well, normally, I've just seen a brilliant photo, right? A guy is just taking a photo while he's pulled his jacket over his wife's head.

is if he's like a criminal outside the royal courts adjusted

dull story i made it to the papers

no his mate his mate passed away oh there we go who feels the sausage now eh and um and but he's given him a thousand pounds in his will for the guy to buy a sausage sandwich every day.

Because they used to meet up for a sausage sandwich.

That's nice, isn't it? It's really nice.

it at breakfast time.

Yeah, that's it.

The ones I love, and I kind of used to write ads, is the one where the person explains what's going on.

They're like, why are you here? Why not? You should be down the road.

Your task was to take a picture that embodied turn back time by Cher, and I'm looking at your picture now, and it appears to be a man hand-feeding a goat in the street.

Yeah, just...

It actually made the papers over here, that photo.

It did quite well.

I never actually thought I'd be quite a photographer, but this bloke, you know when you walk past something, I know it's got nothing to do with Cher, and I can feel your gentle ribbing.

You know what I mean? I know you're kind of tickling me going, it's got nothing to do with it.

If I ask why, is there going to be an answer, or is it just one of those quirky things that they do in Australia?

apparently the guy he was pretty blasé about it all yeah he was pretty kind of like you know why are you being weird you know as he as he was walking with goats it was quite ridiculous but I just thought it was a beauty kind of photo I thought you know

it's mr al picture hey how are you mate i'll give you a double pun there on the title and the uh yeah i'm very well how are you how was your show

Yeah, it's all over now.

So I'm off to Sydney tomorrow.

So things are great.

And the Australian crowds are kind of cool, you know.

How do they differ from...

It was a bit of an awkward show, but it went, you know, everything apart from that's been good.

If you go, oh, it smells a bit of wee out there, and there's the old stench of sex, they go, I figure, mate, I like the smell of urine.

Your show finished five minutes ago.

Yeah, I'm buzzing.

I'm in my white dressing gown with the white towel around my nose.

And they've just taken away the bananas, the grapes are coming.

You know what it's like, you know, this comedy thing.

It really is true.

And I actually had someone come in that listens to the podcast, right? My room's so hot, right? Not with jokes.

I

You've only been in Melbourne half an hour, so I imagine you haven't done anything.

No, I got picked up at the airport, and we've gone to this kind of really...

You know when you kind of have to, like, let one of your arms out of your jacket just to kind of blend in and be cool? Pull your trousers down a bit, you know? Pull your trousers down a bit to be cool.

It's all latte and anchovies.

so the challenge this week was to take a picture which um encompassed the record why won't you talk about it by the radio department your picture this week which listeners can see on the website if you go to six music home page and then to shows and then john richardson you've gone for a picture of a child blowing a huge snot bubble

I just, well, the problem is, Anitra and I, my wife, we had a bit of a heated discussion afterwards, and we didn't really talk to each other, just for about, we don't really have big arguments, but 30 seconds probably lasted for, because instead of clearing the snot bubble, the balloon, the balloon of despair, she just left it there and started taking photos, right? Yeah.

So that was my argument, was like, there are places to take photos, that's not it.

not true!

That is not true! Yes, he did.

There was alcohol at the end, and I said, I said, we've purchased it.

You can, you know, you can take a few cans.

It was like he was looting.

Yeah, it's

beautiful.

And I'm kind of inside.

Confused by time.

You know what the problem is? This whole hour ahead...

And Scandinavia's just shot ahead.

I think Scandinavia went about 10 to midnight.

And that's just messed me up.

I'm all over the shop.

They moved

all going to be upbeat, it's your birthday, and you won Best Show at the Leicester Festival last week, didn't you?

High Barnet High Road?

Yeah.

And it's got one of the highest...

I've got to be careful here because a lot of the stuff I say is rubbish.

Hopefully true.

The clock is like one of the highest parts of London or something like that.

Do you want to describe your picture?

Well, it's my mum trying to be kind of hip-hop.

had to play

it on a computer.

And he was playing like Back in Black, ACDC, and then he'd just voice over, ladies and gentlemen, Matt Ford.

It was just one of the most fantastic experiences.

I think we got more laughs in that dressing room than we did on stage.

Are you going to make me launch a stewards inquiry on your ass?

Who did Lionel Messi sign for? The Gaudi or Barcelona? I've got nothing to back that up.

No, no.

Dan Atkinson felt that this was self-promotion on your part and that you were looking for a big up.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, you know, the new camp is somewhere where I want to play.

And the tour's gone extremely well.

So, you know, you think, just give away one ticket because you can't make it.

Cheers, Dan.

Thank you so

much, mate.

I don't like it, because I sort of, you get used to Edinburgh feeling like it's yours when you're a comic, and that you could just nip in any pub or cafe and you'll know people in there.

yeah yeah but there is that kind of um also when you see so many people it's basically if you never if you've never been a comedian you've never done edinburgh you get that whole kind of it's like meeting all your school mates yes on every corner and stuff and there's a few people you put your head down and i just didn't see you mate just didn't see you

What are we taking pictures of this week?

well it's a finale because i'm um no no it's not finale but it's my last week of the tour i'd like to carry it on i think you know i've had a few emails even on my website from people sort of and and uh edinburgh stan there was a couple of guys and a girl there and they were kind of like going Yeah, you're 3-0 down, mate.

You're 3-0 down.

So the gauntlet's been thrown.

I thought about the funniest vegetable, right? But then that's just going to get innuendo-like.

So what I thought was the best taken photo of yourself.

It's an amazing feeling, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah, and Mother Nature's gone.

You're not going home tonight, boy.

Yeah, yeah.

You're going back, and all the hotels are full, so you're going to have to stay with one of the audience members and sleep on their couch.

Ledge.

I haven't done that for years, you know.

I'm like six foot two, and I couldn't feel the bottom of my feet at the end because the couch was too short.