53. Quiffo Magnifico with Mobeen Azhar

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Presenter, producer, and one man Northern powerhouse Mobeen Azhar joins Fi and Jane for a chat and a flapjack. They discuss some of Mobeen’s programmes which range from a new film about The Satanic Verses to radio documentaries about imams who give sex advice, British jihadism, and being transgender in Pakistan. Plus, Fi and Jane on their trip to the races with Clare Balding, and the adventures of an obstreperous goat named Mary Jane.

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0:00.0	This is the BBC.
0:04.0	Look, this is a helicopter. I know.
0:06.0	We need to talk about the races, don't we?
0:09.0	The whole thing was fairly surreal, overused adjective.
0:12.0	Now, I'm not saying I'm not from an equine background,
0:15.0	but I really know absolutely nothing about horses.
0:20.0	I think I probably went to the kind of school where quite a lot of the girls went home and had horses.
0:24.0	Oh, I see, we just dreamt horses in the pool, of course.
0:26.0	We didn't have a horse, we didn't even have a pony, we didn't have a donkey.
0:29.0	We did have a go-call Mary Jane.
0:31.0	You did? Yes.
0:33.0	The most bad tempered goat that you've ever met.
0:36.0	Why did you have a go-call Mary Jane?
0:38.0	Well, my mum was quite, she wanted to live in quite a self-sufficient way.
0:43.0	So, you wanted to have some kind of a milk-expressing animal.
0:48.0	She was just a thug. She just ran at you as soon as you opened the gate.
0:53.0	And then one day she got hungry or just a bit of strefferous looking up.
0:58.0	And she ate all of the felt off the top of the shed.
1:02.0	And it didn't seem to bother her at all.
1:14.0	The BBC is pro to bring you, fortunately, with fee and Jen.
1:17.0	Another collection of the random and unrelated from fee-lover and Jen Garvey.
1:22.0	No handily available in podcast form.
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