Puckoon

Almost three decades later, Ross has become a best-selling character in his own right.

But Paul Howard's career has taken him well beyond Ross into television, comedy and now a novel about the very different subject of United Ireland.

Paul, good morning and welcome.

Good morning, Pat.

uh, that it would be, you know, it was always something we talked about when we talked about in school, you know, we used to write in our copy books, 26 plus six equals one.

That was kind of, you know, the trend at the time, but I never, ever thought in my lifetime that this would be something that was, um, part of a serious conversation and it is now, you know? And, um, so that's what I wanted to do with the book and Asian once again, I wanted to, Kind of it's kind of a reverse Pocoon.

One of my favorite books, Spike Milligan's Pocoon, growing up was Pocoon, Spike Milligan, the only novel Spike Milligan ever wrote.

And in the in Pocoon at the very beginning, the gentleman from the Boundary Commission are drawing the Irish border and one of them sneezes and the pencil bisects the town of Pocoon.