Hi, Richard, good to see you again. The Mannion-ator!

Guys, first of all...

How old are you? Have either of you got any piercings, any tattoos?

I've got an appendix scar. Does that count?

Classic! You know how it is. I was with a bunch of pals, got a bit tipsy, rolled into casualty, yeah.

Hey, we all got it done! Yeah, in your face, bitch!

That's very funny. Nicola Murray, any piercings?

Um... Er, er...no. Yes, you do.

No piercings at all.

You have got some piercings.

OK, all right. Er, sorry, no, no piercings at all, no.

Um, some people say that my distinguishing feature would

be probably my ears, which I'm told are quite small.

a little bit careful about taking

too light an approach to culturally sensitive issues like body piercing or female circumcision... Earrings!

Earrings! I've got pierced ears.

Let's leave that there. Fuck me, this is like a clown running across a minefield!

I'm really worried about Nicola. She's behaving like a squirrel trapped in a pedal bin.

All I'm asking you to do is have a word with...Blondie, the producer,

and cut Nicola some slack because she needs all the sympathy she can get.

The problem is, if you say to a journalist,

"Can you avoid that topic?" that's when they really go for it.

It's like saying to the school bully, "I'll wet myself if you tickle me."

Dear Richard, I don't see the point of piercings.

If you were a robot, you wouldn't stick bits of dangling flesh all over yourself, would you?

in the past year. Peter Mannion?

Well, some people are paid a great deal of money for doing things that

and so will...top bankers.

Let's find out what the callers make of it. Jim in Taunton...

Jim from Taunton's thoughts are.

What are your thoughts tonight, Emma from this flat?

Actually, Ollie, we do need to talk.

That sounds ominous, like "Did you until recently have a cat?" kind of, er...

Hang on, I've got to take this.

Oh, fuck this! Right, OK, you do that.

I will go for a shit with the lovely Polly Toynbee. Stewart, hi.