90: The Jackie Annual and Bathing with Eels
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s instalment of Dig It, a shocking music revelation from Jo, an unexpected bath-time companion, and a wholesome (if slightly questionable) trip down memory lane via the Jackie Annual.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Diggett. |
| 0:01.5 | If you had told 16-year-old me that Paul Weller, who was on my wall and who I loved and adored, |
| 0:08.2 | he's going to send me flowers one day. |
| 0:09.6 | I would never have believed you. |
| 0:12.0 | I remember being accidentally caught when a friend came over. |
| 0:16.1 | There were a few hands in certain places and my granddad walked in. |
| 0:19.0 | It was like, oh my God. |
| 0:21.9 | This is so humiliating. |
| 0:27.5 | If Beastie Boys did a gardening show, it would look like this. And God damn it, it's so good. |
| 0:32.6 | I don't like 60's music. I'll be honest with you. It's the kind of thing I don't like. Hang on. The Beatles. |
| 0:38.7 | Oh no. Unpopular opinion. No, I don't. Really? None of that. All of that's right after this. |
| 0:56.2 | Digit is brought to you by Marks and Spencer. Great news, Joe. M&S have relaunched their Sparks loyalty program and it's better than ever. You earn money directly into a digital Spark's wallet every time you shop at M&S if you buy food, fashion and everything |
| 1:02.7 | in between. I've heard about this and better still, MNS have teamed up with Virgin. So now |
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| 1:18.7 | virgin hotels, Virgin Experience Days and more. You can earn money into your Sparks wallet |
| 1:24.9 | from the big things, booking, say, a Virgin Voyage's getaway |
| 1:29.3 | and spend it on the important things like Percy Pigs. You can't go wrong with Percy Pigs. |
| 1:34.4 | The way it works is simple. Link your sparks and Virgin Red accounts in the MNS app. Book something |
| 1:40.5 | brilliant and watch the money land in your digital Sparks wallet. |
| 1:49.4 | Ready to spend on whatever you fancy at M&S, delicious food, new season wardrobe. |
| 1:50.1 | Or both. |
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