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Mel Giedroyc

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1764 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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So I brought my old driving license.

Anyway, got through, went through, very exciting.

I've never been anywhere near the Ruddy Old Bailey.

It's the amazing building, which on the top has Lady Justice.

I don't know if she's called that, but I'm going to call her that.

Lady Justice with a blindfold, but actually it's not a blindfold because she is all-seeing.

It's almost to prevent her from seeing too much, but she is all-seeing.

And in one hand, well, she's got scales, hasn't she?

sword of justice and some scales and it's all very exciting anyway i get through i am led into a corridor which i can only describe as smelling of cabbage there's quite a cabbagey wow and it's quite 1970s but then lo more doors are opened and suddenly we're into that place that you've seen on the films and in tv shows probably starring olivia coleman yeah something you've

very gritty, heavyweight judge.

I'm thinking, do you know what I mean?

And there's marble everywhere and there's statues and it's like, okay.

And also the lady that took me through described the flooring.

She says, notice we're not on carpet anymore.

We're on wiped down floors because there's often a lot of fighting.

I'm going down for a long stretch of 25 years.

Really long, really long phone call just to try and make it, you know, last as long as possible.