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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

186. Multiple Jugs and Victorian Sausage-Makers, with Rosie Jones

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fortunately, Fi and Jane return from their spring break to chat to comedian Rosie Jones. Rosie tells them about her new travel series Trip Hazard, as well as discussing her life in lockdown with her parents and whether or not she'll be buying a hotel in Bognor. Rosie's book 'The Amazing Edie Eckhart' is also coming this summer. Before their guest arrives, Fi and Jane catch up on the goings on while they were away and muse on the chances of a podcast creche any time soon. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

Now look, people will be wondering what's happened in our very exciting lives.

0:09.6

Exactly. Over the last couple of weeks when we haven't been available to the listening

0:13.6

masses. So can you bring everybody up to speed? I mean, I'll be honest, we did have a couple

0:17.6

of exchanges during the last fortnight. Largely, well, there was one particularly rawnsy exchange

0:24.5

of texts about pensions. I see you remember which was about 10 days ago, which I enjoyed,

0:29.4

but you curtailed it, so you didn't want to go on anymore. And I didn't hear from you for

0:33.8

a few days. Heartbreak, and I shut it down.

0:38.7

This is fortunately where Fieglover and Jane Garvey take you from the inimitable to the inane.

0:46.3

So much has happened in the world. We lost Prince Philip. Did that affect you? Were you deeply

0:55.8

moved by that? No, I know that you are. And I'm not being insincere and saying this, actually,

1:00.6

you hold the royal family in very high regard. They have a place in your life, don't they?

1:05.4

Yeah, I think let's be clear about this. Yes, some members who I have a level of respect

1:12.8

for, I thought, I mean, you'd have to have a heart of stone, not to be moved by elements

1:18.3

of what happened on Saturday. I am very, very intrigued by the expression and it cropped

1:26.2

up a lot in discussion of Prince Philip. That wonderful expression didn't suffer or doesn't

1:30.8

suffer falls gladly. And I've always been intrigued by that because I never know who

1:36.3

decides or what gives you the right to decide who is the fool. You know, why is somebody

1:42.3

like Prince Philip allowed to say, or was allowed to say, that person is a fool, therefore

1:47.6

I will not suffer them gladly because it's not, I mean, who's to judge? Who's a fool

1:53.2

and who isn't? There may well be people. Yes. Well, don't you think it just landed in

2:00.6

what was already quite a full box of euphemisms, didn't it? Because as well as not suffering

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