55: DIG IN: Going Sober, Family Wars, and Poo in Your Handbag
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Another wild ride in this week’s Dig In. How do you give up drinking in what many would call the toughest month of the year? How do you stop your husband’s sister from taking the absolute piss on holiday? And is cancelling plans the worst social crime imaginable — or is it fine if you do it early? Plus, we share another truly legendary poo panic story. Watch or listen now.
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Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
Technical Producer: Will Gibson Smith
Video Editors: Cameron Laird
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Digit, it's okay not to have come across the g-string or had an experience of one. |
| 0:06.8 | Good choice of words. |
| 0:09.6 | I fell asleep and Coco was by my side and I was woken up about three in the morning with her going, |
| 0:14.8 | are you all right, Zoe? |
| 0:16.0 | I looked at him and I was like, oh God, Coco, it's mum. |
| 0:20.0 | There is no way that I can leave that poo in the toilet because, Coco, it's mum. There is no way |
| 0:21.2 | that I can leave that poo |
| 0:22.8 | in the toilet |
| 0:23.7 | because she'll know it's me. |
| 0:25.1 | So I just instinctively thought |
| 0:27.2 | it seemed logical to me |
| 0:28.8 | to remove it. |
| 0:30.9 | So I put it in my bag. |
| 0:33.5 | No. |
| 0:34.4 | All of that |
| 0:35.1 | right after this. |
| 0:43.3 | Music No! All of that, right after this. Digit is sponsored by Stripe and Stair. |
| 0:45.8 | Can I say, Joe, I think comfort has become my number one priority with clothes now, especially underwear. |
| 0:53.3 | Hell yeah. I mean, life is simply too short to be |
| 0:56.5 | uncomfortable. There are items in my wardrobe. I think maybe there's one thong and maybe there's a |
| 1:02.7 | couple of crop tops like brawlets, which I really like, that are quite tight because I like to |
| 1:06.5 | be compressed if I've got a t-shirt on. But on the days when I don't need to wear those, I just want to hang loose and I want to have a really nice soft fabric. And that is my ultimate dream bit of underwear. That's why I love stripe and stare so much. Their knickers are unbelievably comfortable. They're soft, they're breathable, really kind to your skin. Yeah, they're made from natural fibres. There are no nasty chemicals. |
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