Hillary Clinton Finds David Mitchell's Play School Story Hilarious | The Graham Norton Show

it's funny oh you you mentioned writing everywhere young David you are one of those children you wrote last first didn't you no because I do think there's some children who just kind of go yeah but you bothered well I I remember any other letters than this one but I wrote a letter when there was a program when place school was on you remember placing all it was a program here for very young children and it was like set in a fictional house and then there was a bit I think to try and help children learn to tell the time where there was a clock just before the story I think there was a clock and you go down and there and the thing beneath the clock would go round and there would be figures on it and it was quite magical and then that stopped going round at one point and I was told and maybe I'm wrong about this but I was told it was because of a union dispute at the BBC I mean I think it was I think I would have been five I don't think so but later was told do you need this to anyone totally was an argument and argument between the people who did the thing going round and other people like the people who read the stories or that you know and so I wrote a letter I think vacuously suggesting that they should have some sort of conversation to resolve then to President Reagan I did what was grinding your gears she well she would just popped up one day and said she wanted to write a letter to President Reagan so the first thing I learned how to read was the newspaper probably not surprising in my house and I read an article one day when I was 5 in the newspaper over my Cheerios that I'd secretly put honey on top of because my mother wouldn't let me have sugar cereal she now spoils my children grudge read that President Reagan was going on a state visit to what was in West Germany and he was going to visit Bitburg cemetery and at Bitburg there were Nazis buried there including members of the SS leadership and I didn't think an American president should be going to pay his respect on behalf of our country to a place where Nazis were buried how old were you I was five but I wrote a letter to President Reagan and I said give her the honey Wow from The Sound of Music okay okay I wrote a letter saying you near dear mr. president I've seen The Sound of Music the Nazis were not nice people please don't go to their secretary [Music] you

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Length: 2min 48sec (168 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 29 2019