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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

213. Wing-It Merchants and Italia 90, with Josh Widdicombe

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on the Fortunately podcast, Fi and Jane chat comedian Josh Widdicombe. The star of the Last Leg and host of the Parenting Hell podcast tells Fi and Jane what he learnt from a childhood of TV watching, chronicled in his book 'Watching Neighbours Twice A Day'. He also lifts the veil on Who Do You Think You Are? and looks back on an infamous moment in Gary Lineker's playing career. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.5

We've had a terrible struggle just getting you in the building.

0:07.2

We're humiliating for you.

0:09.0

Very humiliating. So I think I've left my pass in Chester.

0:12.2

It's happened before.

0:13.8

It's a country music song, isn't it?

0:15.8

It's bound to win at the CMAs this year.

0:18.2

Left my pass in a boutique hotel in Chester.

0:21.8

I left my pass in the Moxie.

0:23.8

I think it's what it will be.

0:25.2

Have you ever find out why it was called that?

0:27.2

No. Moxie? Moxie?

0:29.2

No. No.

0:30.2

Whatever that was, never ever do that again.

0:34.2

So we had a lovely time in Chester.

0:36.2

The thing that really made me laugh is that it's a town known for its Roman roads and amazing

0:45.4

Roman architecture and all that kind of stuff.

0:49.2

And now in modern times it's become seemingly quite well known for its one way system.

0:54.4

And you wonder what the Romans would have thought of that with their long straight vision.

0:58.7

Maybe that's something that the urban planners had in the back of their minds when they

1:02.8

were creating not only an effective ring road.

1:05.1

That's a very effective one way system too.

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