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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

3. No Portcullis of Compliance

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Radio women Jane Garvey and Fi Glover consider broadcasting life before health and safety - when you could drink and then broadcast; and before political correctness - when it was okay to be could be rude about everybody. And on the subject of leaving programmes, they reflect on their own endings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'd just like to tell you about a podcast that I've been doing with my friend Brian Cox.

0:04.8

I'm Robinins. Welcome to The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:07.2

What we're doing in this new series, Sharks, fungi, bees versus wasps.

0:11.8

We're going to explain how bees explode, why wasps don't explode,

0:15.0

before we then climb into a Supervolcano metaphorically.

0:18.2

So, if you'd like to hear about the magnificence and strangeness of the universe

0:22.4

and all the wonders that lie within, listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage.

0:25.2

And you can listen to the whole series before anyone else

0:27.8

when you listen on BBC Sounds. This is The BBC.

0:32.8

Isn't it incredible it's been a week? Gosh, I'm water week.

0:36.8

Yeah, or not, is the case maybe.

0:38.8

I say that as though something might have happened to excite people's fancy,

0:41.8

but I can't think what it might be.

0:43.8

I'm opening a can of fizzy pop under the table here,

0:46.8

which will just, it'll sound bad, won't it?

0:48.8

What if there's a wind? Don't be ashamed.

0:52.8

It happens to all of us.

0:54.8

I thought it might sound a little bit more like I was having an alcoholic beverage.

0:57.8

Oh, I see. Which even though this is a podcast,

0:59.8

I think it's still against BBC regulations.

1:01.8

Is it?

1:05.8

This is the, fortunately, podcast from the BBC.

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