221. Daphne Spruce and Pippa Clack, with Helena Merriman

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fortunately, Fi and Jane are joined by the broadcaster Helena Merriman. The creator of the hit Radio 4 podcast Tunnel 29 shares her new series Room 5, which looks into how different diagnoses changed people's lives. Alongside that Helena gets the Fortunately seal of approval for a new acoustically friendly blog and is given the name of her next project. Before Helena logs in, Jane's trip to Heathrow turns into an epic odyssey and Fi discovers her right honourable alter-ego. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Apparently you're snoring a lot, this is what you've told me.
0:07.8	I have a story because I've got a little bit of a head, it's just a head cold.
0:11.0	Have you flow tested? I have.
0:13.4	Are you flow testing every day?
0:14.9	Oh yes, well I am at the moment, just out of human decency.
0:17.9	Yeah. Yeah.
0:18.9	How many packs, how many boxes of flows have we got learned around the house?
0:23.0	We got five at the moment.
0:24.9	Yeah, so I think I probably got a good four on the go.
0:27.2	I thought we had an email this week from somebody who's saying they're sick to death.
0:29.9	You know, it's all those little itty bits in the boxes.
0:32.4	Well you do wonder about that.
0:33.9	Yeah, they're not very environmentally, well they're not at all sustainable.
0:38.0	Do you think some people will hang on to a pristine box and then it'll crop up on
0:43.6	Antique's roadshow in 50 years from now?
0:46.2	I think it will be very much the equivalent of the early, I want to say Pac-Man, but they're not.
0:53.9	Those very early little co-handheld computer games that are now worth tens of thousands
0:58.4	of pounds, but only if you still have the packaging.
1:01.7	Yeah, it's got to be completely pristine.
1:03.4	Yep.
1:04.4	Yeah, it's like those figures that people collect but don't take them out of the box.
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