>>927 I listened in. Don't worry if you didn't as it was about 5 minutes and it was pretty unilluminating.

Half of it was about ISTL (Steve Wright was basically saying, last time you were here it was about ISTL, er, any sign of a release date?)(answer: there is a US release date and TH "hopes" it will be released soon after in the UK. No specific date given though).

The rest was bog standard boilerplate about TNM: Le Carre comes from that world, he was very involved in the production, Hugh Laurie is a funny guy.

Only interesting thing (to me). He sounds very mid-Atlantic suddenly. The accent is not nearly so cut glass as he has started saying things like "two thousand four" for the year 2004.

Couldn't tell if it was pre recorded or not. Steve did say "he is in the studio with me" not "I caught up with"; I don't know if the BEEB is allowed to pretend it's live when it's not. He was in a studio and definitely not over the phone - could be another studio elsewhere although there was no sound lag and they do usually say something like "joining us live from a studio in LA" if that's where the person is- radio 2 needs all the glamour it can get (!!).