We don't-

I thought, I thought nothing of it, until a few days later I was going through photos on my phone, and I saw a photo from a few years back of myself and my dad on holiday.

Yeah, go on.

My parents split when I was young, and I, uh, and he hasn't had a relationship since.

I was absolutely mortified, and now I have no idea what to do.

So I guess what I'm asking is, what do I do?

Hang out with a bloody prince.

Yeah.

But I'm just very proud of the fact that we...

I wanted to do a challenge when I had something to say, and I was talking about that earlier, about having something to say.

And the message was, there are loads of people that live without a safety net in the country, in the world.

And imagine something goes wrong in your life, and you do have a safety net.

It's still awful, and I'm sure you're lucky enough to have lovely friends, lovely family, and the means to sort of, you know, make yourself better or get yourself out of a sticky situation.

Um, what advice would you give someone who's at the very beginning of their own broadcasting journey and quite scared of all the uncertainty?

You've still got it.

Galaxy.

And during the day after I did the show, I was up there during my summer holidays or Christmas holidays at university.

I would stay in bed and breakfast in Newcastle on my own, but I was having the time of my life.

But I'd go off into, into Newcastle and go shopping for music, and this, uh, is a Maximo Park single, um, I Want You to Stay, one of my favorite songs of theirs.

And unbelievably, the day I was in HMV in Newcastle, I was buying these vinyl, um, Maximo Park things, taking them to the till, and I looked across, and Paul Smith-

What a guy.

One of my favorite bands, So I Want You to Stay, original demo version on their label, on Warp Records, and this is it signed by him, and I have it in my house and I love it.

Yeah, go on.

My parents split when I was young, and I, uh, and he hasn't had a relationship since.

I was absolutely mortified, and now I have no idea what to do.

So I guess what I'm asking is-... what do I do-

It's so good.

'Cause I, IShould we do a test? Like, I've got a moley arm.

I, I'll flash it quickly and tell me how many there are.

Yeah.

And that was really the jumping-off point for the book, which was I wa- every day on the radio, uh, for forever, I've been very fortunate that I've been able to do fun stuff, encourage people to be silly, laugh through the sad times, because that's how I get through life, by finding fun stuff and being around fun people, and people that bring out the best in me and let me be myself around them.

And I wanted to write a book which was touching on that, but also not shying away from the sadnesses that life will inevitably throw at you.

And so, All the Best for the Future is sort of a love letter to our older selves and also to our younger selves as well.

Yeah.

But just challenging them a little bit, but also trying to make things relatable.

That's the, that's the tough thing, I think, with, with c- creative jobs, which is that balance between I want people to come with me on this, but also you wanna push things forward a little bit for yourself and for them as well.

And I, I, I just, I find it really exciting just making stuff.

Who was there? What was the show you listened to?

So, since the book, I've really tracked back and worked out what I would have been listening to and when and who with.

And it was with my mum when we were doing long journeys to school because we'd...

They were both teachers, so we'd moved house, but we hadn't managed to move school in time.

So I was doing an hour and a half commute there and back to a school in Bromley.

And... we had these long journeys at breakfast time and I would listen to so much breakfast radio and it was virgin radio because we were listening on 12.15am and it was back in the mid-90s, I guess, early to mid-90s and it would have been a show called The Russ and Jono Show and it was hosted by Russ Williams and Jono Coleman and it was just very fun and very anarchic and silly and spontaneous and felt... lively and they did a, I remember what I do remember is that they did a feature where they would invite the listeners into the studio on a Friday.

I think it was a Friday.

Right.

that hard to believe, coming from a man who looks half like he's just stepped off a beach in Thailand and half like he's just come out of Vidal Sassoon's expertise

workshop.

Yeah.

Well...

It takes a lot of work.

Some would say too much.

But I think it's a great lesson for life that you think you've just got your hair sorted and then suddenly the rug is pulled from beneath you or sometimes the rug is kneaded on top beneath you.

Yes,