242. Pews for the Deeply Cynical, with Your Emails

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week on the Fortunately podcast, Fi and Jane choose some of their favourite listener emails from the past few weeks. As it's the last episode before a summer break, there are some book recommendations too. Emails cover a host of topics including the male menopause, views from the pulpit, tales from local council phone handlers and there's a very interesting parcel to open. Authors & Books mentioned: Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss Jane Harper Chris Hammer Julia Boyd - Travellers in the Third Reich, A Village in the Third Reich Viola Davis - Finding Me: A Memoir Nora Ephron - I Feel Bad About My Neck, Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women Maggie O’Farrell Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road Nevil Shute - On the Beach, A Town Like Alice Peter Papathanasiou -The Stoning Abi Morgan - This Is Not a Pity Memoir Abi Dare - The Girl with the Louding Voice Lucy Caldwell - Intimacies Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow, Rules of Civility, The Lincoln Highway Fortunately returns Friday 26th August 2022 Get in touch: [email protected]

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.2	If you were pressed and I'm going to press you, could you name the Education Secretary?
0:09.2	No, don't be ridiculous.
0:11.5	Because that's like, so when you say that, the image in my head is of a roulette wheel
0:18.1	and the ball says Education Secretary and you're just spinning in a round waiting to
0:22.6	see where it falls, Jane.
0:24.4	Can you?
0:25.4	I can, but only because I've rehearsed this bit of this off-the-cuff podcast and I was
0:29.7	just going to ask you.
0:31.6	It's a man called nominative determinism coming up, James Clevely.
0:36.7	Oh, is it James Clevely?
0:38.7	Yes.
0:39.7	Oh, I've got so confused them because I saw a clip of him last night on the news where
0:43.2	he was standing on a stage.
0:44.4	I think he was definitely in some kind of capacity of either economics or leveling up on that
0:51.3	stage.
0:52.3	Really?
0:53.3	But he's education this morning, is this?
0:54.3	Yes, yes.
0:55.3	It's not Nadine, Mormie, Shell or anybody else?
0:57.1	Minotus home to him.
0:58.1	Yeah, for a time.
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