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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

196. Annual Phone-ins and Important Chickens, with Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fortunately, Fi and Jane are joined by BBC Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg. Our man at the Kremlin actually reports this week from quarantine in the UK, but is still full of insight on Mother Russia. Topics include Steve's question for the next Putin press conference, unusual extension leads and gold toilet brushes. The podcast was recorded the afternoon before England played Germany, so Fi's cooking a chilli and Mystic Jane offers her predictions. Get in touch: [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

So Vegan Vera is hoving back into view any minute now.

0:08.7

She'll be back from uni, that bit's done.

0:12.0

And then we're leaving school today as well.

0:15.2

So actually it's a day of, it's a week of change

0:17.8

and a high emotion in our house.

0:20.2

And I tell you what I realised this morning,

0:21.8

I was thinking about it.

0:23.0

I bet you can remember the first day

0:25.4

you ever took a child to school or nursery.

0:28.0

Oh god yeah, space of them, yeah.

0:30.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:31.0

So the first time I ever did it,

0:32.8

I took my eldest child to nursery when she was three.

0:36.6

So that would be 18 years ago.

0:40.2

And today for the very final time,

0:42.1

I took a child to school.

0:43.8

Oh gosh, that is quite a thing.

0:46.5

Yeah, and it feels like the end of something.

0:48.6

Well, it is the end of something.

0:50.2

And who's changed more during that time?

0:53.8

Oh, I look the same.

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