180. Martian Sandwiches and Mob Weddings, with Nick Bryant

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week Fi Glover and Jane Garvey are joined by BBC New York Correspondent, Nick Bryant. Nick takes Fi and Jane back to relive their own experiences of the big apple. He also gives the lowdown on his last four years of 'heavy metal' reporting and how it built into his new book When America Stopped Being Great. Before Nick dialled in from the NYC studio there's post-lockdown lists, War of the Worlds singalongs and some cinematic revisionism. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0	BibiT sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.8	Sorry.
0:06.8	Oh no, don't eat an apple.
0:09.8	Don't eat an apple during the recording.
0:12.7	No, no.
0:14.1	Sorry, it's just one of my one a week.
0:16.8	I need to get it down, Mo.
0:19.4	But why now?
0:20.4	I know, sorry.
0:21.4	We've presumably this is probably the only point in your day where you have to sustain
0:24.9	conversation with another human being for longer than five minutes and you've chosen
0:28.5	to start an enormous apple.
0:30.4	You're so brutal.
0:31.4	Not just a little russet, huge thing to bring in you to a great pink lady.
0:37.0	Welcome to the fortunately podcast with Fiengène.
0:41.4	No available on the actual radio.
0:46.7	This is the week where our lockdown plan has been explained to us in depth by the
0:54.5	Prime Minister in England and lots of people have said it's had quite a weird, it's
1:01.5	provoked quite a weird response to them because instead of feeling joyful and positive
1:06.9	and optimistic and making lots of plans and hanging out the bunting and all that kind
1:12.0	of jazz, actually people have had quite an anxious response to it.
1:17.4	So I wondered where your head was at and I think some of that's just about not quite believing
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