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Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

68. Dress smart, jock smart… with London Hughes

Fortunately... with Fi and Jane

BBC

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Fi and Jane congratulate each other on winning Funniest Show at the ARIA radio awards! They’re joined by comedian and presenter London Hughes who shares stories about a nightmare date, her amazing dancing grandma, and overturning racial stereotypes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.9

Welcome to our fourth and final August

0:07.9

delight from the considerable now back catalog of, fortunately.

0:12.6

Now here is a young woman who after her appearance

0:15.8

on our very, very humble podcast has gone stratospheric.

0:20.8

She puts casual references on Twitter

0:23.2

to nights out in the presence of the likes of Stevie Wonder.

0:27.0

I think it's more than fair to say,

0:28.8

this woman's life has moved on from the concrete

0:32.1

piazza in London's W1.

0:35.1

It is, and you loved her as well as much as I did for you, didn't you?

0:38.2

It's London Hughes.

0:40.0

So she was just so funny, Jane.

0:41.9

I mean, she was laugh out loud, funny.

0:43.6

That is a young woman who can tell an anecdote

0:46.2

who's aware about the world she's in and her place in that world.

0:50.0

And actually, I think listening back to it,

0:52.7

we could all take some lessons from losing London Hughes

0:57.4

to Los Angeles, because she's such a mega, mega talent.

1:02.1

And she refers to it in this interview

1:04.4

that she didn't feel that she was getting the breaks

1:07.0

that she needed over here.

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