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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

175. Influencing Mole Rats, with Tom Allen

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fortunately, Fi Glover and Jane Garvey chat to comedian Tom Allen. The presenter of Bake Off: An Extra Slice joins Garvey and Glover to talk growing up in Bromley and writing about it for his book No Shame. The three of them also discuss dinner table expectations, sartorial etiquette, speaking French and of course, cake. Before Tom there's virtual cookalongs, tunnel mysteries and a new way for the BBC to save some cash. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. Did you just say your headphone jack needed a twiddle?

0:10.0

I love that.

0:12.4

The BBC is pro to bring you fortunately with Fee and Jen, another collection of the

0:16.8

random and unrelated and Fee Glover and Jen Garby.

0:20.6

So there's a food and nutrition home schooling lesson going on downstairs.

0:25.0

I just, I note this just in case at any moment, I might have to actually go and be my slightly

0:30.8

more important profession of mother if there's a slicing incident or something.

0:39.0

I've just taken my youngest daughter to her dad's to her co-parent and actually it is,

0:45.0

she always says, one of the benefits, I don't know how my friends whose parents aren't

0:48.1

divorced, co-p, she says, she's got another location she can go to.

0:53.5

It's brilliant. Yep, we've said the same thing in our household.

0:56.6

It's when divorce cars get cheering up during a pandemic.

1:00.4

I knew what I was doing.

1:02.2

Ten years ago. Yes, or by the way, isn't this the podcast that Gossip Columnless

1:08.4

listened to?

1:09.4

Do you read me?

1:10.4

Well, tell you what.

1:11.4

Do you want to get something off your chest as well because you mightily upset last

1:15.6

least and I felt it was too soon after the incident to draw attention to it but now we've

1:20.5

had some time and the scab has formed.

1:23.6

You were quite upset because what was the adjective that was used to refer to you which

1:27.2

was just rude at the end.

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