Ep 170 with Marina Purkiss & Jemma Forte (Part 2)

What The F Is Going On? with Mark Steel

Carousel Studios

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.7 • 888 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week Mark continues his conversation with Marina Purkiss and Jemma Forte. If you haven't heard the first part then do go back and listen now but for the rest of you here is the second half of the interview. Please do check out Marina and Jemma’s podcast “the trawl” available on all platforms! Want to get access to the full video interview before anyone else? why not join us on Patreon? For £4 a month you can listen to the whole interview straight away – and you'll also be able to watch it! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/wtfisgoingonpod⁠ For media, press & guest enquiries please email mikey@carouselstudios.co.uk Follow What The F*** Is Going On? with Mark Steel on Twitter @wtfisgoingonpod Follow Mark Steel @mrmarksteel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	For people living with dementia, Christmas can be confusing, overwhelming, heartbreaking.
0:08.3	Families are often left to cope alone.
0:11.2	But you can help a family reimagine Christmas.
0:14.5	Donate to Alzheimer's Society and you can help provide practical support, expert advice and crucial companionship this Christmas.
0:22.4	It will take a society to beat dementia, and we can't do it without you.
0:27.6	Search Alzheimer's Society and donate today.
0:30.7	We risk becoming an island of strangers.
0:34.1	We will strive for the denotification of Ukraine.
0:36.8	Let me put it to you. Because you can't grow, can't grow.
0:39.3	Yes, you can.
0:40.3	They're eating the dogs.
0:42.3	They're eating the dinosaurs.
0:43.3	Under the EU, we weren't allowed to eat it.
0:47.3	I just think everyone should be sure.
0:49.3	What the fuck is going on?
0:55.6	Hello, I'm Mark Still.
0:57.6	Welcome to my podcast.
1:01.6	We live in a world in which, if we have a problem,
1:05.7	it's that there's just too much jollity and kindness.
1:17.0	There isn't a country in the world in which empathy and love and harmony doesn't just seem to overflow so much so that it's annoying really.
1:24.7	Well, there is the odd little glitch in this, just enough, so that we can ask the question, what the fuck is going on?
1:33.2	This week I will be continuing my discussion with my very special guest, Marina Perkis and Gemma Forte.
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