4.6 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | With BT Broadband and TV, you can say goodbye to boredom, and hello to... |
0:04.6 | Huh? |
0:30.7 | In the show that I'm just winding up now, the work of the devil, which contained two major |
0:35.7 | revelations in the second half, one of which, the most famous one, and what it's sort of about, |
0:40.5 | it was the discovery that I was donor-conceived. And I learned through a DNA test that I was |
0:46.5 | actually conceived in a clinic in central London, run by one called Mary Barton and a husband |
0:51.2 | Betalt Visna, and the husband Betalt Visna was, it turns out, supplying the vast majority of |
0:56.8 | the sperm that was getting women pregnant over the course of about 22 years. It's thought |
1:00.6 | for a farther somewhere between 600 and 1,000 children, so I have all these half siblings. |
1:04.8 | The first time I went into that room, where they were all having lunch, the first big gathering, |
1:09.3 | there were 27 of them in there, and they were the first blood relatives I'd been in a room with, |
1:15.4 | ever. I mean, that's extraordinary, isn't it? At the age of what? 55 or something. I think the kind |
1:20.8 | of the core philosophical conundrum that you get to through recognising it and pondering on it is, |
1:26.0 | there is no alternative. It's not like I could have been this, or I could have, I would not exist. |
1:41.9 | Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantinfician. And this is a show for |
1:48.1 | you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people. Our terrific guest today returns to |
1:54.1 | the show for the third time. He's one of our favourite comedians here in Britain and has also |
1:58.3 | become a very prominent commentator as well. Simon Evans, welcome back to the show. |
2:01.6 | Thank you very much. I'm very excited to be doing my third show. I am looking forward to |
2:05.9 | wearing my badge. We'll have to design a badge. I think there should be one, maybe a tattoo or |
2:11.0 | something. I don't know. Oh, absolutely. On your forehead. It comes with a free bank account |
2:15.2 | cancellation. Oh, yeah. I've been reading about those. Yeah. They're spreading out now, aren't they? |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.