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Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

93: DIG IN: Getting the Grief Out… and Swearing on Live Radio

Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball

Persephonica

Society & Culture, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting, Home & Garden, Personal Journals

4.6606 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What do you do if you think your partner needs therapy but they’re reluctant to go? Is it ok to reduce your friendship group as you get older? Plus, how everyone expresses grief in different ways. Jo & Zoe discuss it all on this week’s Dig In - as well as some live radio mishaps they’d rather forget!

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CREDITS
Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Producer: Sam Psyk
Assistant Producer: Eve Jones
Technical Producer: Oliver Geraghty
Video Editors: Cameron Laird and Jack Whiteside 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up on Digit.

0:01.6

You'd be a great therapist, though.

0:02.8

You're so good.

0:03.6

I'd be terrible.

0:04.8

I'd just end up telling all the dreadful things I've done myself. Well, actually, in 1992, this terrible thing. We suppress grief and we suppress crying and we just constantly going... Hold it together. Hold it together. And we shouldn't. Yeah, a number of funerals I've been to where it's... physically it's so hard just to keep the tears and the grief in.

0:21.0

Well, we have to be good girls, don't we?

0:22.1

Because if you're on the radio, you have to, you learn, you know, not to. It's physically, it's so hard just to keep the tears and the grief in.

0:21.0

Well, we have to be good girls, don't we?

0:22.1

Because if you're on the radio, you have to, you learn, you know, not to swear.

0:25.8

Although I think I did accidentally swear once on the radio.

0:28.9

No, I said the C word once on the radio.

0:30.7

That wasn't good.

0:31.6

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0:42.4

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