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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

235. I've been to Split several times, with Sirin Kale and Pandora Sykes

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fortunately Fi and Jane are joined by the journalists Sirin Kale and Pandora Sykes, hosts of the podcast Unreal, a critical history of reality TV. Unreal looks back to the earliest days of the format and takes us all the way to today, featuring iconic shows and stars. Before their guests' arrival Fi and Jane have had some niche PhD titles sent in and emergency Jubbly plans are afoot. Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.8

You want to talk about printers? Is that where you want to start?

0:08.7

I asked a perfectly innocent question.

0:11.5

Not everything I say is meant for public consumption.

0:14.0

Some of it is very private between us.

0:16.3

I just said, very sincerely,

0:19.6

would you recommend the home printer you have?

0:22.5

And I definitely would, Jane.

0:24.2

Would you? Yes.

0:25.2

This isn't an advertorial, but what is it?

0:28.0

It's quite funny.

0:29.3

The reason why I'm very happy for this to go on tape,

0:31.6

because it's not an advertorial,

0:33.1

is because I've often looked at my printer

0:34.8

and thought, why are you called the HP Envy?

0:38.6

We've got an envy.

0:40.4

I've got an envy.

0:41.6

But who, in what meeting, product design, naming, labeling,

0:47.7

strategizing, meeting, did they all, at the word envy, go,

0:52.2

oh, you've absolutely nailed it.

0:55.6

Because not many people feel a pulsating level of desire

1:00.4

for a home printer to do it.

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