222. Coffee, Soap and Timekeeping with Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Fi and Jane chat to Jess Salomon and Eman El-Husseini, hosts of Comedians vs The News on the BBC World Service. The couple beam over from New York to offer their thoughts on making global audiences laugh, Jess' former career in The Hague and their non-lethal dog. Before Jess and Eman join, Jane reports back from a rare sojourn to a spa and Fi reveals her favourite bit of memorabilia. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.4	Let's both admire the new carpet.
0:07.0	Which you hadn't even noticed.
0:09.4	I didn't notice, Jane.
0:11.1	So what made you notice?
0:12.9	Well, because I'm sorry that you...
0:14.1	Is it a different colour?
0:14.9	I know a lot about interiors.
0:16.3	Do you?
0:16.9	Yes. As you know, with my kitchen units being repainted
0:19.9	very recently, I've been consulting a number of very glossy
0:23.1	magazines.
0:24.1	And as soon as I walked in to the fifth floor of the house
0:27.8	that is broadcasting relatively frequently these days,
0:32.2	I noticed that, yeah, this beautiful grey...
0:36.8	Well, they're both dark grey and light grey carpet tiles
0:40.8	seem to have been fitted throughout the establishment.
0:43.0	I see. I can't remember what was there before.
0:45.3	Well, no, it's a measure of how awful the other carpet was
0:47.2	that I can't remember either, but I do know that this is different.
0:49.7	OK. I did notice that the room has been tidied.
0:53.5	So somebody more important than us has been in.
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