14: Failing Exams, Parenting in the Phone Age and the News No Family Wants
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Digit. |
| 0:01.3 | I feel like I haven't been completely honest with what's going on in my life, but I can't, |
| 0:04.9 | I just can't talk about it. Oh darling, sorry I was, I thought I should do it, but I don't think I can. Oh no. I got a D, an E and a U in my A levels. Go, girl. I mean it's really important that people know that they can fail. If I've ever given my kids a hot time about being on their phones too much, I will hear, |
| 0:25.0 | Mom, put your phone down. |
| 0:26.5 | You are such a hypocrite. |
| 0:28.0 | Because there I am. |
| 0:29.2 | Doom scrolling. |
| 0:30.1 | All of that right after this. |
| 0:43.7 | Digit is sponsored by Stripe and Stair. Can I say, Joe, I think comfort has become my number one priority with clothes now, especially underwear. Hell yeah. I mean, life is simply too short to be |
| 0:50.5 | uncomfortable. There are items in my wardrobe. I think maybe there's one thong and maybe |
| 0:55.7 | there's a couple of crop tops like brawlets, which I really like, that are quite tight because |
| 1:00.2 | I like to be compressed if I've got a t-shirt on. But on the days when I don't need to wear those, |
| 1:04.5 | I just want to hang loose and I want to have a really nice soft fabric. And that is my ultimate |
| 1:09.7 | dream bit of underwear. That's why I love stripe and stare so |
| 1:13.3 | much. Their knickers are unbelievably comfortable. They're soft, they're breathable, really kind to your |
| 1:18.3 | skin. Yeah, they're made from natural fibres. There are no nasty chemicals. And I think you really |
| 1:22.7 | notice the difference straight away. And I love that they don't just stop at knickers. Their |
| 1:26.6 | brawlets are brilliant, no underwire, no digging in and their sleepwear is so comfy, you won't want to take it off in the morning. Honestly, once you start wearing them, they just slowly take over your drawer. They do, and they do them in lovely colours. It feels like one of those small upgrades that makes a huge difference to your day. Yeah, and also, Stripe and Stair are a female-led |
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| 1:59.3 | and Stair.com and the code is Digit 20 for 20% off. This episode of Digit is sponsored by Sofology. So what makes a good sofa for you? Oh, good sofa. It's got to be massive. There's a load of us. And it's got to be nice and deep and seriously comfortable. I also, I always agonise over the fabric and the colour as well. Because it's obviously, it's like the centrepiece of your home. It's one of the most important decisions that you make when you're coming to decorate a room, I think. You don't just sit on it. You live on it. I mean, we do. You eat on it. I mean, not actually. But you talk on it. You watch telly on it. You fall asleep on it quite often. It's basically, it's like a member of the family. It really is. I think people can rush it. I'm guilty of that. They panic by a sofa |
| 2:39.4 | because they need one quickly. And then six months later, you're sitting there thinking, |
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