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So Lucky with Dawn O’Porter

Sara Pascoe

So Lucky with Dawn O’Porter

HarperCollins

Society & Culture

4.8663 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of her new podcast series, Dawn sits down with Sara to discuss being "content with mediocrity", how a stellar career highlight can feel surprisingly different to how it looks, and Sara's personal definition of luck.


Sara’s book, Sex Power Money, is out now, as is her podcast of the same name.


Dawn's latest book, also called So Lucky, is available now in print, ebook and audiobook.


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0:00.0

It's Lidl's pick of the week.

0:02.0

Save up to 35% on selected fruit and veg.

0:05.1

Like British Jersey Royal Potatoes, only 129.

0:08.3

Pomerganage is just 89p each and a bag of green beans for 69p.

0:12.7

In store now.

0:13.9

Now that's big on quality and always little on price.

0:17.2

Limited offer subject to availability selected stores, GB only.

0:23.2

Dear 2020, can we just start over?

0:28.2

I'm Dornow Porter and I've been thinking about life in lockdown, mostly from a cupboard.

0:35.1

My new book, Life in Pieces, is full of thoughts on everything from bad

0:39.3

hair and parenting to things we can control and the things we can't. When everything's falling

0:44.6

apart, we'll piece it back together. Life in Pieces is out now in hardback, e-book and audiobook.

0:54.4

Hi, I'm Dawn O' Porter and and welcome to So Lucky, my new podcast series where each week I go deep with my guest and explore all of the sides to all of their stories.

1:04.7

We go for the highs and the lows, their hopes and fears, and of course their lucky and unlucky moments.

1:10.2

My first guest for you in this series

1:11.7

is the brilliant comedian Sarah Pascoe and strap yourself in because we really go there. I've always

1:17.5

known Sarah as a very funny, very strong woman, which she absolutely is, but this interview wasn't

1:24.2

about a laugh a minute. She took me to a different place that I wasn't expecting

1:28.1

and I'm really grateful to Sarah for that. We talked about Sarah's own definition of luck,

1:33.6

how she learnt to be in her own words, content with mediocrity. We talked about animals because

1:38.7

obviously Sarah and I are going to talk about animals. She told me about crying on the floor

1:42.8

ahead of a huge career highlight

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