hi we're aunt and deck authors and
narrators of our book once upon a time
it's brilliant this is audible eight
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right i've got questions for you and
you've got questions for me i sure have
brace yourself i'm gonna go first go on
then hey declan yes
doesn't say that i just wanted to say
that what's something that cheers you up
no matter what
it used to be watching newcastle united
not so much now that's been replaced by
my daughter oh if i'm in a bad mood or
if i'm a bit grumpy or
if things are getting on top of me and
she just flashes a cheeky little grin
that's it that's it makes me smile no
matter what show us your favorite emoji
with just your face what can i do with
another part of my body
the emoji trying to work out what
the aubergine
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i always do that i know oh yeah thumbs
up yeah yeah yeah it's that way actually
there you go
yeah what were you most scared of
writing in the book what were you more
scared of writing in the book
why are the most scared of what are you
most scared of writing in the book
well i don't know if i was scared but
the most difficult
chapters were probably around our music
career
why well because i think it's memory
loss
there's a bit of that and
um that was probably one of the less
enjoyable times of our career
so it's kind of going over old old times
that weren't you weren't really just
yeah we're having great times what were
you
most excited to include in the book
writing about the time we spent with
prince charles
because i think it's a great insight
because when else are you going to know
about it are you talking about the royal
sleepover yeah we had a royal sleepover
i mean i'll tell you a little bit about
it now so basically we followed prince
charles around for
nine months um of his life it was a for
a tv program not just we yeah we're not
stoggers
it wasn't like we were down one end of
the corridor and he was in a different
wing
all bedrooms were here and his bedroom
was there
like literally across the corridor and
there's a moment
which i talk about where i come out of
my room in a robe
and who is in the corridor prince
charles
more of that in the book who would you
like
to narrate your life
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ah well there's only one person i think
would do this justice yes who would be
qualified enough to do it with a good
voice with a great voice
good good accent great accent yes
sir ian mckellen what yeah it'd be just
just like like velvet and could perform
it
it would be wonderful
what was your favorite thing about
narrating the audiobook
apart from being reunited with me it was
actually quite fun to do was wasn't it
yeah it was good fun it was good and
it's
you get a real sense of the journey when
you kind of when you have to read it out
loud but we spend so long kind of
writing and put it together you get a
sense
you've got a real sense of what the book
is it's good isn't it it's a good book
you know what's weird
about doing the audiobook is when you
read a bit and you go
does this book make sense yeah and you
thought oh i would have written this
differently yeah i can't change it now
it's probably changing that's got the
print yeah
you've been an actor you've been a
singer
you're a presenter comedian in brackets
is there anything you can't do nothing
that springs to mind though
certain rides theme parks can you get on
all of them
you gotta pass that height thing most of
them most of them yeah and gotten the
ones you want to go on
you know teacups and stuff yeah this is
a good one
would you rather be able to talk to
animals
or read people's minds talk to animals
now
i've always wanted to talk about that
seems like a very knee jerk it's not
it's not legit
i've thought about this a lot i mean i'd
look mad
but i'd have the most wonderful time
it'd be with the most beautiful
existence me talking away to horses and
birds and
ducks in the pond and then the dogs can
talk back to me
well you taught animals and maybe i
could read mines and then
let's let's put both skills together
yeah okay and we can read the animals
minds
we don't have to talk to them we've been
on deck thanks for joining us
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time
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