102. Deforesting the Territory with Ros Atkins

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Jane takes a break from a very interesting event to join Fi on the BBC piazza. This week their guest is the BBC News presenter and recent podcaster Ros Atkins. Ros details what it's like to be texting a Titan of the US airwaves, skin care techniques and how a drive down the M4 led to a landmark broadcasting project.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:09.2	Very unusually, it's a Wednesday.
0:11.2	I'm so discomboblulations.
0:13.2	Because usually we choose day girls.
0:14.8	No way.
0:15.8	We're Wednesday women this week.
0:17.4	A literary is always never too far from my lips.
0:20.6	My luckier is lip.
0:22.0	Get it?
0:26.6	I'm actually in the middle of attending,
0:29.2	and it's been absolutely fascinating.
0:30.8	An event for women with dementia.
0:33.4	And on the face of it, it sounds like the gloomiest thing on Earth.
0:36.8	But you know what, I've had the most interesting hour and a half of my life, I think, so far.
0:41.0	And I'm going back for more.
0:42.4	Now what made the most interesting hour and a half your life?
0:44.6	Because you know, this is a woman who's interview Hillary Clinton pissed,
0:48.2	ladies and gentlemen.
0:49.4	I've interviewed Hillary Clinton,
0:50.8	while Hillary wore a surgical boot.
0:53.0	And you had had four strong coffees and a pack of extra strong men.
0:56.6	Three Prosecco scoops before I...
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