Emergency announcement
- Henry is doing a show at the Edinburgh Fringe but has announced it very last-minute.
- This has ham-strung him, he is strung with so much ham (his porcine muse).
- Friday's show is definite, at The Box in George Square as part of Assembly Festival, and possibly also a Saturday show.
- The ticket system isn't working, probably because of a surge in traffic for Henry's show. May have to make your own ticket.
- Ben is interested in how many people this is applicable to, but Henry reminds him about air travel.
- If the two things on your bucket list are seeing the Military Tattoo and seeing Henry's show (awkward pauses in a hot room), book a flight.
- Ben, currently in Edinburgh, has noticed more air conditioned rooms this year.
- The show is Illustratinator, featuring live drawings on a screen using 'a machine'.
- Time as a day: Big Bang...French Revolution (lunchtime)... Henry's show (teatime – cup of tea and a Twix, not dinner). Henry's machine has only been available for 20 minutes in this context.
- Fusion of illustration and comedy that will delight some.
- Ben's phone number may be needed to sort the ticketing issue as changing browsers may be required (see link in show notes).
- Illustratinator as a name is a problem because people neither know how to say it nor how to spell it.
- Henry reminds Ben about Homer (born around the time Nicky Campbell's show is on in the 'time as day' metaphor) and his Iliad (also tricky to say/spell).
- Henry's only 'asset' for the show (apart from his uranium mine in Mali and his porcelain spoons) is an image that still uses that title. The festival people put the 'work in progress' bit in white on white, so Henry is reminding people now that it is a work. in. progress. Bear this in mind. It does what it doesn't say on the tin.
- Brunel made a lot of suspension bridges before the one that spans the Severn estuary. Trial and error. Bridge in progresses (had a raw energy).