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🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Weather presenter and author, Carol Kirkwood, joins Gaby for a joyful natter.
Carol is a pure joy spreader, whether she's giving us the weather on the telly, or in her day to day life.
She recently got married, so Gaby talks about this new chapter in her life, as well as her incredibly successful career as an author.
Her latest book - 'Meet Me At Sunset' - was published in July. (which is when we recorded this episode)
They also try to answer that age old question: Why are Brits so obsessed with the weather?
Remember you can watch all our episodes via our YouTube channel - where you'll also find our extra Friday nuggets of joy (our bonus Q&A episodes)
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| 0:32.2 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I know, everybody I know says you are walking sunshine and you absolutely are and you're always smiling even |
| 0:58.7 | though you've gone through stuff and I've seen you in the street and what you do for people is |
| 1:04.0 | you lift everybody so thank you for that Gabby what a lovely thing to say. I absolutely mean it. |
| 1:11.8 | You're incredible. |
| 1:13.9 | You're incredible. |
| 1:15.0 | And I witnessed it from afar coming out of the tube station and we bumped into each other in Oxford Street. |
| 1:20.8 | But the people in front of me, you were talking to everybody and they were all, |
| 1:24.6 | there's Carol Kirkwood. |
| 1:26.5 | Because you're in everybody's |
| 1:29.4 | houses, you're there in their rooms, you're there in their bedroom, this sounds, makes you sound |
| 1:33.8 | a bit strange, but you're there in their kitchens, you're there in their city rooms, you're there |
| 1:37.4 | in, you know, at times when the news can be really, really very tough, especially at the moment. And you're there |
| 1:45.8 | and you tell them about the weather and you make everything feel a little bit better. |
| 1:50.1 | Oh, bless you. I wish you were my agent. There's a job going, Gabby. It's yours. |
| 1:56.6 | But you've, I mean, I know you started in TV a while ago. Yes. And you started as a presenter and all the things that you've done and radio. |
| 2:07.0 | And it led you to where you are now. |
| 2:10.9 | Because you started the BBC when you were very, very young. |
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