Katie Kirby AKA Hurrah For Gin: Thongs & Mad Dog 20/20
The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway
Emma Conway
4.6 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Who loved a thong, snogging boys and was sad over the Shane and Angel plot in Home and Away?**. Sunday Times bestseller Katie Kirby that's who! She joins me on The Phonebox Podcast today to talk about how she nearly became a beauty queen by accident and how she had a thing for Jarvis Cocker.
**It was indeed Shane who passed away and broke our teenage hearts forever.
Be sure to check out Katie's amazing Lottie Brooks series. Her latest book 'Lottie Brooks's Totally Disastrous School Trip' is out this week! Grab it here. Perfect for 9-12 year olds. She also has hilarious books for parents out under the guise of Hurrah For Gin. Grab one here. Or follow her on Facebook here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello lovely ones and welcome to another episode of the phone box |
| 0:07.3 | podcast with me Emma Conway how the devil are you I hope you have had an |
| 0:10.8 | amazing week I'm back with a cracking episode this week. A small disclaimer. I had a perimenopause |
| 0:16.7 | a moment. Now if some of you are listening to this who were teenagers in the 90s, maybe you can |
| 0:21.6 | relate because I had a full brain fog, a full, |
| 0:25.5 | it would, my mind went. I was interviewing the wonderful Katie Kirby who is |
| 0:31.2 | also known sometimes as her alter ego herr-for-gin and most recently known as the brilliant |
| 0:37.2 | author of my daughter's favourite books The Lottie Brooks series. |
| 0:41.7 | They are brilliant. For tweens from 9 to 12 it is the perfect reading |
| 0:47.2 | diaries are like a little bit like a female Adrian mole but for like younger kids |
| 0:51.9 | it's perfect anyway we recorded a whole |
| 0:55.2 | bit we had to hang up for some reason we carried on doing it and it just dawned |
| 1:00.2 | on me I hadn't recorded I hadn't recorded it so half the way through this |
| 1:05.2 | you here we go and now we're back in the room because I forgot to record it so you know |
| 1:09.0 | what women who are 45 you get it you understand me and women who are listening to this, who are younger, |
| 1:16.4 | this is your future. |
| 1:17.8 | One day you will forget to press record or forget to do a myriad of things the other day I threw my toner in the bin and put a dirty |
| 1:29.4 | cotton wall in on the shelf in the in the bathroom cabinets that nice. I hope you enjoy this episode. Don't |
| 1:35.6 | forget to tag me in where you are listening and I will see you back at the end for a chat. |
| 1:39.4 | Hello Katie and welcome to the phone box podcast. How you I'm just like you thanks for adding me |
| 1:46.5 | That was pleasure is all mine. Okay, what year were you 14? It was 94 |
| 1:56.6 | 1974 I'm not 19 It was 94 94 94 94 94 94 94 94 |
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