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Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Janey Godley

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien

Global

Arts, Society & Culture

4.53.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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James O'Brien is joined this week by comedian Janey Godley

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0:00.0

This is a global original podcast.

0:04.0

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of full disclosure. It will be part of the special lockdown editions and as a project conceived originally to let me spend a little bit more time with people than is ordinarily available.

0:17.3

I'm delighted to tell you that my guest this week is the comedian Janie Godley,

0:21.8

who is at the other end of the country, but also somehow right next to me.

0:26.9

Janie, how you doing? I'm great. Beautiful sunny Scotland. I'm in my bedroom with a window

0:31.5

open, fighting off the blue bottles. How are you finding the lockdown?

0:36.1

Actually, it's quite good because that sounds weird.

0:39.3

It sounds as though I'm enjoying it.

0:40.8

I'm not.

0:41.7

Elements of it.

0:43.6

Yeah, well, there is an element of it.

0:45.4

I quite enjoy being at home and doing work from home.

0:50.6

I'm a writer and I do a lot of videos at home.

1:01.0

So it's been okay because my husband and my daughter Ashley Story, we're both stand-ups and creatives and we've always worked together from home as a family.

1:05.0

So it kind of just feels like we're on a really extended weird caravan holiday and we're just getting to the bit where we're ready to throw a pot at each other but we're going it in.

1:16.6

Has it been productive? Has it been a creative period for you? How many foreign languages have you learned?

1:22.6

Just the swearing in Scottish very loudly. It hasn't been creative and it has. I mean, for instance,

1:29.7

last November I got a new book deal and I can't write the book. I can't get my head into that

1:35.0

space to write the book because I have five mini panics every day like everybody else. Every day I go,

1:41.6

oh, this is great. I get a day off. Are we all going to die? This is

1:44.9

wonderful. What if I catch coronavirus and my daughter dies? So I can't do that. But in the other

1:49.4

hand, I've been making videos every single day. I was doing one just there and uploaded it. And

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