Hello, this is everything else, the FT Culture Podcast.

I'm Grizz, a commissioning editor on the arts desk.

And I'm Al, the food and drink editor.

This week is goodbye. Not for the podcast, I must

say, but just for me. So this will be my final episode. And so we'll be fighting back the tears

to talk all about goodbyes. Indeed, from the painful, slow death goodbyes of Brexit with

comedian Nish Kumar, to talking about some of our favourite goodbyes of Brexit with comedian Nish Kumar

to talking about some of our favourite goodbyes from fiction and in our own lives too.

Okay, so I should get this out of the way as early as possible.

I'm leaving the podcast, not because I hate the podcast

or because Gris and I have broken up in any way. No, I'm just leaving to spend an extra day with my baby son, Rufus. Which is great for, well, primarily for Rufus, I imagine. Well, I hope it is. It would be a disaster. It would be lovely for him. Actually, he regrets my decision. Okay, so now that we've got that out of the way, what have you been up to over the past two weeks?

Well, this is my first day back in the office for a while because I've been ill,

and I've basically been watching a lot of TV, including Derry Girls,

the 90s comedy that's about living through the troubles and being a teenager

and worrying about things like car bombs but also worrying about lip gloss and whether you're

gay and who fancies you and all the other things that teenage girls worry about. That's not a good description of it, but it's totally brilliant.

And the other thing I've been watching is the second series of Fleabag,

which has parallels with Derry Girls, in fact,

because Fleabag herself, the main character in this series,

has got the hots for a Catholic priest.

As we all know, it's not a good idea to have

full of love with a Catholic priest.

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