130. Habsburgs and Hairy Fruit with Adam Rutherford

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Fi and Jane catch up with broadcaster and scientist Adam Rutherford, presenter of Radio 4's Inside Science and the Curious Case of Rutherford and Fry. He finds the ladies on the 4th floor of BBC NBH, fresh from reminiscing about Kevin Keegan. Adam tells them about his very special cricket team what its like to share a studio with Woman's Hour. Big issues out of the way they then delve into the light matter of genetics...Adam's new book explores the relationship between science and ideas of race and genealogy. He reveals some interest truths for Fi and Jane about their own ancestry and also about dating in Iceland. Before Adam drops in: Jane continues her computer course, courtesy of generous listeners and Fi reveals what it's like to get your eyelashes permed.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	I was fine with my teeth get tired half way through a baguette, are you?
0:09.0	I mean it's a commitment to baguette.
0:11.0	And on a whole meal baguette you've really got to think,
0:14.0	have you alright? Have I got the energy for this?
0:17.0	Fortunately with Fien Chen, you know it makes sense.
0:21.0	Now listen, we've had a couple of emails about cutting and pasting.
0:25.0	Oh god, okay.
0:29.0	Okay, do you know what I really want to do?
0:31.0	I just want to log into your computer and I just want to press copy
0:35.0	and see what you've been pasting that has just disappeared into your infinity
0:40.0	because it could be very revealing.
0:43.0	Oh, my...
0:45.0	So that would be a great little plot twist in there, wouldn't it?
0:49.0	They can't find, they can't find the imperative sentence,
0:53.0	the names, the murderer.
0:55.0	And then it turns up.
0:56.0	And someone goes, what if it's on the clipboard, the clipboard in the cloud?
1:00.0	I don't know this clipboard of which people reference all.
1:03.0	That's why yours is going to be so terribly indicative.
1:07.0	Indicatively.
1:09.0	Incriminating. Oh, possibly that.
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