46. Not being the story: with Presenter Sarah Montague
Fortunately... with Fi and Jane
BBC
4.8 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2018
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Now you inquired earlier about my health and as it happens, yes, I have been to the doctors for a very quick blood pressure each our teacher. |
| 0:10.0 | Just a little bit of public service information there, you do need to go. |
| 0:14.0 | Anyway, I was sitting in the waiting room arriving as usual, seven minutes before my appointed time, because I'm that kind of girl. |
| 0:20.0 | What's the point of this? |
| 0:22.0 | It's a doctor. |
| 0:24.0 | There was a couple of elderly ladies and I can say they were elderly because they identified each other as being of a similar vintage, struck up a conversation. |
| 0:33.0 | And during the very early stages of the conversation, it was revealed that they were both 90. |
| 0:39.0 | One woman said to the other, what time is your appointment? She said 10.45. |
| 0:44.0 | Crack it. It's not even 9 o'clock. |
| 0:47.0 | You're bedding in for a pretty long morning. |
| 0:51.0 | You're so gratsy and flicking up. |
| 0:53.0 | Absolutely, you're really, really odd. |
| 0:55.0 | Then they got talking about current affairs. |
| 0:57.0 | One said to the other one, so Barbara Bush has died. |
| 1:01.0 | The second lady said, yeah. |
| 1:04.0 | The first woman says, she was married to George Bush. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, so the other woman. |
| 1:11.0 | Silence. |
| 1:12.0 | And then the first lady says, |
| 1:14.0 | I can't remember a son's name. |
| 1:17.0 | The other woman said, me neither. |
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