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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

192. Elvis Ambivalence and Stallion Concierges, with Alastair Campbell

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fortunately, Fi and Jane are joined by political strategist and author Alastair Campbell. The former No.10 insider discusses his book 'Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression', which explores mental illness in a family. Alastair also describes his perfect macho photoshoot, professes the importance of jam jars and offers to put a good word in with ol' Tony. Before Alastair logged in there's fuzzy forks, leftover wax and moon births. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.6

These obviously offer a sweaty train.

0:07.0

Oh, how was it?

0:08.0

I don't mean to disappoint, but it was quite nice to be out.

0:11.2

It was nice to be on some kind of moving transport,

0:14.2

nice to countryside.

0:16.2

We saw quite a lot of the countryside of Varkshire

0:18.5

as the train stopped.

0:21.1

I bought this magazine though.

0:23.5

Virus.

0:24.9

This is a special edition glossy magazine.

0:27.4

Virus.

0:28.4

You don't get it normally.

0:31.0

So it was, I thought I needed to read up, you know,

0:34.0

on the background of the epidemic and other epidemics,

0:36.7

but I slightly, I did slightly lose my appetite

0:40.2

on a non-moving train with a stressful deadline

0:44.8

encroaching upon me.

0:46.0

I'm not quite sure when I'm going to read that magazine,

0:48.2

if I'm honest, Jane, but I felt righteous

0:50.8

when I bought it in W8 Smiths.

0:54.3

The BBC is pro to bring you, fortunately, with Fee and Jen.

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