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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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A final thank you to everyone for thanking us for thanking you… get it? Fi dives into open-water faux pas, Spotify Wrapped, early-years parenting, and the future of AI - she’s got range! Plus, we peel back a few more doors on Hetty’s advent calendar.
Also, lexicographer Susie Dent discusses her new book ‘Words for Life’ with Fi and Rosie Wright.
You can listen to our 'I've got the house to myself' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MkG0A4kkX74TJuVKUPAuJ
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, let's put the microphones up for this bit, please, Eve. |
| 0:14.2 | Hi, too. |
| 0:15.4 | Yes, hello, Eve. |
| 0:16.9 | So poor Eve. |
| 0:19.4 | We've just been having a perfectly normal conversation, but in normal life would just be a chat. |
| 0:25.7 | And then, because it's the podcast, it's, no, come on, record it. |
| 0:28.8 | Everything is content. |
| 0:29.6 | Everything is content. |
| 0:31.7 | Which is the ultimate line, isn't it? |
| 0:34.1 | It's from Nora Ephra. |
| 0:35.7 | And she made such a career out of telling us stuff about her life, |
| 0:42.2 | but in such a glorious way. And I can't think of anybody who in her time was doing it with quite |
| 0:48.6 | such panache and style. Have you ever read, I feel About My Neck? I have not. |
| 0:54.5 | You should. You'd really love it. You'd really love it. |
| 0:56.8 | It's a collection of essays that she wrote over the years on everything from aging, which is where the title comes from, to the breakdown of her marriage. |
| 1:07.7 | And also some of the stuff about knowing who Deep Throat was. |
| 1:10.8 | I would highly recommend Nora Ephron to anybody, especially our younger listeners. |
| 1:15.1 | Now, I'm going to get to a fantastic email called Nippy Tits from your powdered oak milk |
| 1:19.4 | correspondent in a couple of moments' time. |
| 1:22.8 | But we would just like to say thank you to everybody who said thank you to us saying thank you on the |
| 1:29.8 | Spotify unwrapped thing me jiggi watts it so we are the top podcast for many of you and that is so |
| 1:36.5 | lovely lovely lovely to know some of you really i think you're the ones who leave the podcast running as you fall asleep because some |
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