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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

44. A squirrel got my melon in Yosemite, with journalist Mark Mardell

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Journalist and Foreign Correspondent Mark Mardell on the dangers of taking fruit into Yosemite. Plus small town America, survivalists, and why does Mark have the nickname Snakehips? Jane and Fi find out.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Snake Hips Mar del on the fortunately podcast at the moment I present the world this weekend

0:05.8

Friday, world at one and I'm doing lots of projects to do with Brexit which are tremendously

0:11.2

interesting to me at least. This is the BBC. I saw you as I was walking back from my lunch

0:18.2

but I saw you saw me and I saw you but then you appeared to want to talk to Jenny Murray more

0:23.6

and she was walking just a couple of steps beside me and I thought well I'm not going to get involved

0:29.3

in this because I've just come out of it badly and also I saw my way to feedback. Do you

0:34.4

dread the feedback call? What? Feedback, you know the Radio 4 show with Roger Bolton. Same as

0:41.1

acid reflux. No, not quite. It's exactly the same. No I was I was caught in a really tantalising

0:48.8

Glover Murray sandwich and I thought which one do I go? I know which side my bread's button so

0:53.8

I went straight to Dame Jenny. No one would blame me. We've got a very difficult decision to make.

1:04.4

Do we stay here with the one show sound check that's just about to boom into action?

1:09.5

Just asked, who is it? And the roadie chap. So it was well I thought he said Anne Murray who

1:16.0

is quite a famous Canadian singer but I think she may no longer be with us. No relation of Jenny.

1:21.5

And they see their sound blasting the pavement as well. I don't think this bodes well. I think

1:26.0

we should media cafe it. I think she goes. Should we go inside? But tell me about the finish

1:30.0

of the sentence about feedback. Okay so yeah see what I mean. So I just had to go on feedback.

1:39.0

You've been on feedback for a while Jane, I put the fee in feedback. You're of course have

1:45.2

done wonderful programmes yourself this week. Oh God you know I meant to say last week. I switched

1:50.4

on what was that. No just just as you used the phrase. Large knitted marrow.

2:00.3

Well that was because it was one of your best.

2:05.9

Now why I was talking to somebody about I don't even want to know I just want to leave it in my

2:12.6

imagination that you did a whole feature on large knitted marrow's. We didn't. We were talking

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