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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

23. #verystrong podcasting with W1A writer John Morton

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Fi and Jane are off to Lollege College with John Morton - writer of the popular television series W1A - to talk about his teaching past, folding bikes and the low-level worry of writing comedy. Plus what happens when Hillary Clinton doesn’t show for your live interview.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:02.0

You're listening to, fortunately, the podcast with Jane Garvey and the other lady.

0:08.0

She's very nice. I mean, a lot of people think she's brittle, perhaps a little too sophisticated for them.

0:15.0

She really isn't. Common as muck, she goes with the flow.

0:18.0

Stories told when the microphone's off.

0:20.0

Do you know what your nickname is?

0:23.0

Frosty Pants?

0:25.0

Frosty Pants?

0:26.0

Charlene Tilton on account of your rack.

0:29.0

It's not like that.

0:31.0

I'm Sean Keven, and I'm supposed to be asking you to subscribe to Fee and Gent, fortunately, podcast.

0:36.0

I was too scared to say no.

0:38.0

So please subscribe to it for my sake.

0:41.0

Who's this week's guest, Fee?

0:43.0

It's John Morton, who's the writer behind W1A and also 2012.

0:48.0

Oh, my favourite. Both of them.

0:49.0

Both of them.

0:50.0

Classic comedy show. I love those programmes.

0:52.0

They're really good.

0:53.0

They're a lot of love, they.

0:54.0

They're a lot of knowledge.

0:55.0

They've been to Lollage College, as we say in our house.

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