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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

56. Halfway up the Shard with Judy Murray

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Fi and Jane get in the Wimbledon spirit with tennis legend Judy Murray. Our hosts break free of the pizza and head to Judy’s hotel, the Shangri-La, halfway up the Shard building in central London. Judy talks about her long career championing British tennis, and supporting her two sons - Andy and Jamie - in their rise from the community courts of Dunblane to becoming Wimbledon champions. Plus, Jane’s recent misadventures with coconut oil.

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.0

So can you do the description of where we are?

0:07.0

Let's see if I can do justice to it.

0:09.0

We are in. Now, I don't know the architectural term,

0:13.0

but we're in an enclosed stone place on a broiling hot day in central London.

0:20.0

Very close to the shard.

0:22.0

In fact, you could almost say we're in a place that's close bosom friend to the majestic shard.

0:27.0

And that is a quote from which poet?

0:30.0

Is that from John Keats?

0:32.0

Yes, who famously wrote in ode to autumn,

0:35.0

close bosom friend of the maturing sun.

0:38.0

God, you're really showing your skills here now.

0:41.0

I'm just gently, we're not so gently, at least shove my breast out

0:44.0

instead of the fact that I had something to say.

0:46.0

I pretended not to notice that.

0:48.0

I'm a little bit worried about the description of us being inside a kind of stone edifice.

0:52.0

It sounds a little bit like we've already been entombed.

0:55.0

Once again, you've got ahead of the pack.

0:57.0

We haven't mentioned the reason that John Keats is relevant.

0:59.0

For some reason, there's a little tiny statue of John Keats in this stone place.

1:04.0

Well, we didn't know, and we should just...

1:07.0

I mean, there's nothing to be proud of in one's ignorance, but we should confess it.

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