whenever i answer the house phone and it's someone i don't wish to speak to
i take a message and pretend i am my fictional handyman shawn
david so do you answer in sean's voice all the time so that in case it's someone you
don't want to speak to i leave a pause and wait for the person on the other end to say hello
you answer the phone with silence and i can usually tell by the hello whether it's somebody
i wish to speak to and if i'm not in the mood to speak to anybody you know i say no i'm sorry
charles isn't home no uh try calling back later you know what part of scotland is sean from
from the west side of belfast charles if you don't want to speak to anyone at all why pick up the
phone well it's a kind of obsessive thing you know it's the insecurity that actors have you know you
think oh my god it might be a job you know well let's give it a try i'll ring you okay yeah okay
has he not bought a telephone since 1983
hello hello
charles hello hey no this is not charles charles isn't home now at the moment but if you'd like to
leave your number uh i'll i'll get him to call you back when when he's back yeah charles are you ill
now it's all right get in the recovery position oh god i'm on my way
so um what are you thinking stephen mangan i i can't see that who picks up the phone and
doesn't say hello it's an innate human instinct isn't it you can't pick up the phone and go
i know
what do you think i don't think you just pick up the phone and not say anything
the person might be able to hear you breathing it all gets a bit creepy
so which way are you gonna go with this david i well i think we don't
think it's true you think it's a lie okay charles truth or lie i'm afraid it's a lie
joan bakewell it's your turn
once when i spotted an ex-boyfriend in a department store
i pretended to be a shop mannequin to avoid having to speak to him
lee well i know what i want to see yeah yeah i know it's probably different
sorry sorry you want to see the mannequins oh yeah whatever do that but then we do mine yeah
i would like to see the mannequin impression well i i it was in the department where they used to
sell a lot of fabrics and they used to have mannequins draped in in just swathes of cloth
so i grabbed a swathe of fabric and just dragged it across my shoulder and it it was full length
where was this well we haven't said where it was it was in dickinson jones on regent street
oh lovely and when was this oh it's a long time ago early in the 60s
surely you weren't old enough to shop on your own in the early 60s joe
so gallant
no i'm kidding i believe you
sorry
i've said sorry to mannequins before now
in the in the department stores yeah but what were you doing to them yeah
what do you think lee is it that's true what do you think do you think that's it
i think she's telling the truth really do you think the thing for me is if you're within
six eight foot of an ex and you don't recognize it because you're static
this seems like i wouldn't know i've never been allowed within eight feet of maya
go on then i say it's a lie okay they're saying it's a lie
uh joan was it the truth or was it a lie it's a lie
you