185. Winking at Mounties with historian and presenter Dan Snow

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This week on Fortunately, Fi and Jane are joined by historian and broadcaster Dan Snow. The historian and presenter behind the History Hit podcast busts two of the biggest myths in history and discusses making sense of grief in the past. They ask when is the right time to start writing history, and how Fi would have fared in the days before glasses. Plus Dan discloses the details of a secret Tall Club and its strange acknowledgements, and Jane’s found a benefactor. Sort of… Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.5	Now I've just had a text from LBC Radio Celebrity Ian Dale who dreamt last night I was having
0:11.6	an affair with somebody from Sky News.
0:13.9	Well are you having an affair with somebody from Sky News?
0:18.2	Well I think at this point you're supposed to just insert the words, I wish and that's
0:27.2	what I'll do.
0:28.2	BBC is pro to bring you fortunately with Fee and Jen, another collection of the random
0:33.0	and unrelated from Fee Glover and Jen Garvey, no handily available in podcast form.
0:38.9	Oh there's my door going, excuse me.
0:42.8	I got to say, I got to say.
0:45.7	So hello listener, it's just me, there's always a delivery.
0:51.2	To make it that what you will, single handedly keeping the economy buoyant, but every time
0:55.4	that Jane goes it's the most wonderful opportunity to have a really really good nose around in
1:01.0	her new office, Jane Garvey Enterprises at the top of the house.
1:05.2	I think she's put up some awards on the wall.
1:09.3	I'm looking at your pictures, they look like awards at the end on the right hand side.
1:15.9	Yeah, awards.
1:16.9	No, no, no awards, no, I'm not one of those people, no, no, no, I don't put up certificates
1:24.1	so I should put my own level certificate in a frame.
1:30.4	I tell you what, I guess this week Dan Snow is reading about him.
1:34.8	He's a man with a big brain, history presenter, he's got a double first from Oxford.
1:41.1	What was it, Cambridge?
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