S1 Sally Phillips: ‘Life is harder, but it’s much funnier’

How Do You Cope? …with Elis and John

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Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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For the final episode of this series, actor and comedian Sally Phillips talks to Elis and John about bringing up her son Olly, who has Down’s syndrome.

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0:00.0	You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and trust me you'll get there in a moment but if you're a comedy fan
0:05.2	I'd really like to tell you a bit about what we do. I'm Julie Mackenzie and I commission comedy
0:10.2	podcast at the BBC. It's a bit of a dream job really.
0:13.0	Comedy is a fantastic joyous thing to do because really you're making people laugh,
0:18.0	making people's days a bit better, helping them process, all manner of things.
0:22.0	But you know I also know that comedy is really
0:24.4	subjective and everyone has different tastes so we've got a huge range of comedy on offer
0:29.6	from satire to silly shocking to soothing profound to just general pratting about. So if you
0:36.2	fancy a laugh, find your next comedy at BBC Sounds.
0:41.6	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:44.8	BBC Five Live.
0:46.7	How Do You C. James and John Robbins.
0:51.0	Hello everyone and welcome to How Do You cope with Ellis and John and before we
0:54.7	start this week's episode with Sally Phillips we thought we'd warn you that there's a
0:59.0	little bit of effing and jeffing in today's chat so that's not your thing, do proceed with caution, but also I think it's
1:06.2	worth saying that the topics we're covering in this show are effable and jeffable.
1:11.4	That's right. Yeah, it's in no way gratuitous. No, but I think unless you have what
1:16.8	are in my opinion extreme views on bad language, it's stuff that you can let go.
1:21.6	But to those of you who may have listened to us for a good few years now thinking, what a lovely
1:26.3	nice pair of young gentlemen there.
1:28.1	Butter wouldn't melt.
1:29.1	Well, butter would melt.
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