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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

50. Titillation with Charlie Sloth

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Fi and Jane head to the Radio Academy’s Radio Festival in the hopes of grabbing the glorious and the good as they queue for a free burrito. In the green room, they corner Radio 1 and 1Xtra’s legendary presenter and DJ, Charlie Sloth. When Charlie reveals his plan to stop work at 40, Fi and Jane are on hand with advice about retirement planning, pensions and getting into gardening. Plus, Jane bumps into a former colleague from her local radio days.

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.0

Welcome to the fortunately podcast, which this week comes from the glittering British Library for the annual radio festival.

0:10.0

I say glittering, there's a small element of glitter isn't there?

0:14.0

I think one or two people have had a jazzle for the occasion.

0:17.0

Do you think so?

0:18.0

So what we're going to do is just try and grab the glorious and the good from the world of radio

0:25.0

because we are sitting in a marquee on the way to the free food.

0:31.0

And it is free food, it is free food.

0:33.0

You know what the floor in the plan is?

0:35.0

Nobody else is as cheap as us and the real stars would be in the green room upstairs,

0:40.0

and they won't be going for the free.

0:42.0

I've just thought of that, you're right.

0:43.0

They won't.

0:44.0

So we'll try and trip up Lauren the Vernor.

0:46.0

She does pass by for a free on your heart.

0:48.0

She's got a flat shoe, I've noticed.

0:49.0

You're right though, she's unlikely to come out this way.

0:51.0

She's a real free on the floor.

0:52.0

So we can chunch on for a while and then we can get in by the people in the green room.

0:59.0

Fortunately with Fiengien, weirdly compelling conversation.

1:09.0

Now in response to the last week's utterances when we talked about,

1:13.0

and I don't know who introduced it, it must have been you, talked about aging testicles,

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