Fi Glover and Jane Garvey on Fortunately, friendship and pushing boundaries in your 50s

The Shift with Sam Baker

Sam Baker Ltd

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.8 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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How do two sensible middle aged broadcasters become the voices of a generation of pissed off older women? My guests today can tell you aaallll about that. Fi Glover and Jane Garvey were off-air colleagues who turned their on-air sensible reputations (as hosts of The Listening Project and Woman’s Hour respectively) on their heads when they launched a weeny little podcast called Fortunately. Described as “two friends chuntering waspishly” - or as Fi and Jane put it “talking complete s**t!”, it’s now “quite successful” according to the BBC - a runaway success according to their millions of listeners. Now they’ve written Did I Say That Out Loud, a book that’s so funny that coffee (and some other, not so pleasant stuff) came out of my nose. I joined Fi and Jane in a box room by the Thames where we chuntered about friendship, being judgemental, making involuntary noises (Jane), pushing boundaries in your fifties and why older women’s voices are relevant to everyone. Amongst many other things. Frankly, it’s like herding cats! Is there anything these two won’t talk about? There’s only one way to find out… • You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including Did I Say That Out Loud by Fi Glover and Jane Garvey, and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me! • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.9	Hello and welcome to The Shift, the podcast that aims to tell the no-holds-barred truth about being a woman post-40, created and hosted by me, journalist and author Sam Baker.
0:45.7	How did two sensible middle-aged broadcasters become the voices of a generation of pissed-off older women?
0:51.7	My guests today can tell you all about that.
0:54.6	Fee Glover and Jane Garvey were off-air colleagues who turned their on-air sensible reputations
1:00.0	as host of the Listening Project and Women's Hour, respectively, on their heads,
1:04.5	when they launched a teeny-weeny little podcast called Fortunately.
1:08.3	Described as two friends chuntering waspishly, or as Fee and Jane put it, talking complete shit, it's now quite successful, according to the BBC, and a runaway success according to their millions of listeners. I don't think I'm ever going to travel again. Do you think you're going to travel again? Lots of people kind of get, oh, no, it's passing phase,. It's passing phase. You'll be back on the easy jet next summer.
1:49.7	I'm not so sure. Well, you might not be. I am desperate for a sunshine break. Yeah, I could be tempted by Greek Island. Could you? I'm so good. If you get kettled in a stairwell on speedy boarding in two hours. Now they've written, did I say that out loud? A book that's so funny that coffee and some other not quite so pleasant stuff came out of my nose.
1:59.8	I joined Fee and Jane in a box room by the Thames where we chunted about friendship, being judgmental, pushing boundaries in your 50s, and why older women's voices are relevant to everyone.
2:01.4	Amongst many other things,
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