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Welcome to another edition of Fortunately with the emphasis on another,

because in the unique BBC parlance, this is your opportunity to enjoy some of the interviews we've

liked the most. Over the last 200, I know, slap your thigh, 200 editions of Fortunately.

And Jane, we have chosen one with Elizabeth Day recorded back in 2019, so we're pre-pandemic here

everybody. And we just really enjoyed meeting her, didn't we? She was at the absolute kind of top

of her game with the How to Fail podcast. And she was just a pleasure to meet, would you agree?

I would, I love Elizabeth, I think she's great. She's one of, genuinely, one of my favourite writers.

In fact, I have got next to me on my desk as I leather here her new book Magpie, which is something

I'm going to start reading today. So I'm going to enjoy, I'm not really on holiday, but I am on

holiday, I'll be on holiday when I read this book. I know this is a good email, my daughter's reddit,

she loves Magpie, I know I'm going to love it too. This is before Elizabeth had even begun writing

on it, working on it, I think, but it was lovely to meet her. And here is the edition,

unfortunately, with Elizabeth Day. Let me just check level. Tell me what you're happy about breakfast.

No, we don't need to do that, you can just set the levels as we go along. What's going on?

Up is wrong. I think he is, it's me. Right, away you go.

First of all, can we apologise for the break? The break in the podcast, because a lot of people

thought perhaps we'd both keeled over, or we'd run off together, or we'd run out of ideas,

or the BBC wasn't paying us enough, or maybe we were over in Florida delivering a keynote

dress to a large tobacco company. I don't know. I turned that one down. I was going to ask you

what the strangest corporate gig was that you'd ever done. I haven't done anything, I'm work for

the BBC, I'm still a little bit more. So you've done lunches at the Royal Gynecological

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