Ian Hislop

I'm afraid listeners of the podcast were rather confused because it was so realistic, the rendering of the transcript.

They thought we'd hired Prince Harry and Charlotte Griffiths to come and do this podcast.

Just like George III.

He did.

It was some of our first issues.

Our best woodcuts were in there.

He bought a lot of cartoons of himself and his son.

He did, yes.

He had a very good collection.

He rather liked being called Farmer George, didn't he?

He liked it as a nickname, yes.

He did, because he was not unlike the present king in that he was very interested in agriculture when everyone else thought it was boring.

Yeah, with only the good ones.

But the Brexit story has appeared in The Hardman, hasn't it?

But then she wore the blue and yellow outfit.

Which I think is definitive.

Yes, and it was very annoying because it was incredibly funny.

It's a great joke.

And Sheila was essentially the managing director of Private Eye for about 300 years since George III.

And her job was to try and keep this thing afloat, not to provide better jokes than me.