Gyles Brandreth

Is June a good month for you?

It is.

This coming Saturday will be the birthday of Harriet Jane.

And I'm not seeing her on her birthday, but you've got lots of family people because it's a Saturday.

You're seeing lots of family people, I think, over the weekend.

Very good.

Because we're seeing each other quite a lot at the moment because we're rehearsing for our Edinburgh show.

And I was hoping to have a birthday lunch with Harriet to celebrate her birthday.

But I have to put this on the back burner because she's not really wanting to have any celebration at all until we've learned the lines, until we've learned the songs, we've got the moves right.

We can't quite believe that we're doing some informal tryouts

in only a couple of weeks' time.

I think it's two weeks today or two weeks tomorrow.

I know, crumbs.

No, well, I think at the first, we could at the first read-through, but the truth is we ought, two weeks from now, we ought to have dropped the books.

We're doing a couple of private shows.

And then we are at the Bedford Park Festival, where there are maybe a few seats left.

I don't know.

Then we are at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.

This is all in London, England.

Then we're at the old sorting office, which is in Barnes, southwest London, where they've sold quite a few tickets for both of those shows.