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Jan 2023
36m 31s

S03 E01: Early Retirement

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About this episode
Time to dust off the periwinkles as William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith return for the third series of the best podcast ever to come out of Binley Woods. This week, the Bucket Heads discuss the first episode of series three of the BBC’s Keeping Up Appearances. There’s Richard’s enforced early retirement, the merits of milk from Lord Crawford’s Scottish estate, as well some very controversial views on coloured bathroom linens. 

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