96: Ideal Retirement Communes and Virginity Songs
Dig It with Jo Whiley and Zoe Ball
Persephonica
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Jo and Zoe dream up their ideal retirement commune, complete with rave caves and cider buses. Harry Styles overshares the song he lost his virginity to, so naturally Jo and Zoe do too. Plus: Greg James and Alice Levine pop by for crate digging and Jo accidentally turns herself green before recording.
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Exec Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan
Producer: Samantha Psyk & Harriet Thurley
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Digit. |
| 0:01.3 | I looked, I couldn't even make my face go into focus. |
| 0:03.7 | And the only thing I could make go into focus was my top lip, which as a woman of my age, |
| 0:08.0 | you should never look at your top lip with makeup on because exactly that. |
| 0:12.2 | I caught like a cider bus if we were going to have a retirement home, maybe a cider bus. |
| 0:16.2 | What, you would retire on a cider bus. |
| 0:18.3 | It might be a little bit like Glastonbury, so we could have a rave cave. |
| 0:21.6 | Yes. |
| 0:22.3 | Harry Stiles was giving an award to Radiohead. |
| 0:25.1 | And he confessed that he had lost his virginity to Radiohead's talk show host. |
| 0:30.3 | Good song. |
| 0:31.0 | Really lovely song. |
| 0:31.9 | Very romantic. |
| 0:32.6 | Do you remember the song that you lost your virginity to? |
| 0:36.3 | Mind Joe. |
| 0:37.2 | Gone. Was all of that right after this. |
| 0:44.6 | This episode of Digit is brought to you by Alzheimer's Society, the UK's leading dementia charity. |
| 0:52.8 | One in three people born today will develop dementia, |
| 0:56.3 | one in three. That's not a distant statistic. It's our parents, our friends, the people we love |
| 1:01.6 | the most. This June, Alzheimer Society, are asking people to wear their forget-me-not badge. |
| 1:07.7 | Thousands of people across the UK will be wearing one for someone they've lost, someone |
| 1:12.3 | they're caring for right now, or for a future where dementia no longer devastates lives. |
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