214. A Long Train to the Library, with Jon Ronson

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In a Fortunately first, the writer Jon Ronson joins Fi and Jane for his second appearance on the podcast. The author of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and host of The Last Days of August tells them about his new podcast Things Fell Apart, exploring tales form the culture wars. Before Jon zooms in, Jane has crane fantasies and there's a shout out to listeners currently having the snip. Things Fell Apart is available on BBC Sounds, where you can also hear an audiobook version of So You've Been Publicly Shamed. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Honestly, have you got anything left to ask me after the last week?
0:08.8	We've been together a lot, every week.
0:12.3	Not that it's not nice to see you today, but I'm not doing it all.
0:17.8	It's weird.
0:19.8	Does it ever feel like a marriage?
0:22.8	No, in the sense that I'm not having any part in your laundry.
0:29.1	So no, it doesn't in that sense.
0:31.6	Nor am I cooking for you.
0:33.5	Or really making all that many compromises.
0:37.8	No, but all of the cooking.
0:39.4	Did you do all of the cooking in your household?
0:42.2	No, I didn't really do any of it.
0:43.6	For example.
0:45.2	OK.
0:46.2	The BBC's probe to bring you, fortunately, with fee and jam.
0:49.6	No, underly available in podcast form.
0:52.6	I maintain that some people do cooking to avoid childcare.
0:56.1	Yeah.
0:57.1	You can always fool the non-cook by saying,
0:59.8	I've got to watch over it.
1:01.8	You better take the kids to the park.
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