It’s a headline to an article you probably didn’t need, as when has Brian Blessed ever not been gold to listen to? But mix him up with the excellent Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Podcast and it gets better still.

With a huge swear warning – put the headphones in if you’re watching/listening to this at work – Blessed talked and Herring primarily listened across 75 minutes. “How much of it is true?”, Herring wrote of Blessed’s extraordinary stories. “I can’t tell you. But at least some of it”.

This is really something. Sit back, get a coffee, and enjoy…