With Copstick still in Kenya, John Fleming is joined in a Soho alleyway by comedian Arthur Smith, who talks about his theory of mindlessness, synthesised comedians, writing for Frankie Howerd, being in a Danish pantomime, why he may go trans-gender, Shakespeare, being pedantic, semi-colons, creative writing courses, Daphne Fairfax and his several half-written novels… plus Arthur performs the opening lines of Dante’s “Inferno” in the original medieval Italian.