Well, I don't get to say this very often. This episode of the podcast features the band with the number one album in the UK!

That band are The Lottery Winners, that record is called Anxiety Replacement Therapy, and this episode was recorded in the run up to the band receiving such momentous news. It’s hard not to see the Leigh band’s chart coronation as a victory for the underdog, and my conversation with singer and guitarist Thom Rylance is simultaneously illuminating, funny and, towards the end, really quite emotional.

You join us in a van parked outside of a music venue in Middlesborough. It takes a few minutes for us to get the audio right, but stick with us, because we get there...

Watch this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5ujmGQ0jzY&t=284s

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