82: Fringe Benefits & Erotic Gardening
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Should Zoe go full fringe? And should Jo really be lending that famously soothing voice to… erotic gardening fiction? This week, Dig It asks far more questions than it answers. Watch or listen now.
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CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Producer: Samantha Psyk
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Dig It. Our very own Zoe Ball has been featured on Anton Dex podcast. Oh dear. It's from April 1994. Are you ready for this? Oh, Lord. He just drove over all the pots for the daily tubers in. And I was like, what the hell? Stop it. What is going on? And he was like, what, what? You crushed my tubers, idiot. I've got a huge bush out the front. I've heard. |
| 0:24.7 | Hang on. He's like, what, what, what? You crushed my tubers, idiot. |
| 0:23.7 | I've got a huge bush out the front. |
| 0:24.2 | I've heard. |
| 0:25.1 | Hang on. |
| 0:26.7 | I've never seen it, but I've thought. |
| 0:28.9 | That one has recently been tended. |
| 0:29.9 | I've had a word of myself. |
| 0:31.9 | All of that, right after this. Digit is sponsored by Alzheimer's Society. |
| 0:41.2 | Joe, I had no idea that every three minutes in the UK, someone develops dementia. |
| 0:47.0 | Every three minutes, that's someone's parent, partner, best friend. |
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| 1:00.5 | just affect the person living with a condition. It can turn a whole family's life upside down. |
| 1:05.8 | Yeah, absolutely. There's the confusion, the changes in behaviour, and of course, wanting to understand what's happening. |
| 1:12.8 | It could be so frightening and often people feel like they have to face it alone. |
| 1:17.1 | That's why it's so important that charities like Alzheimer's Society exist. |
| 1:21.5 | They're the UK's leading dementia charity and the only one tackling every part of it. |
| 1:25.7 | Not only do they give vital support to people living with dementia and their loved ones, |
| 1:30.4 | they also fund groundbreaking research and campaign to make dementia the priority it absolutely should be. |
| 1:37.8 | Because dementia isn't just a normal part of aging, it's caused by diseases, |
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