1940s jiggery-pokery from a public kiosk (with Samira Ahmed)
6/23/20261 hr 3 min
The heatwave has sent Times Towers temperatures plummeting, meaning a special garment has had to be deployed... Jane and Fi chat about automated bell ringers, travelling diarrhoea, a bounty of bath plugs, par-boiling sausages, and it's someone's special day...
Plus, journalist Samira Ahmed discusses her new book 'A Hard Day's Night'.
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First 90 secondsFi Glover· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome everybody. A cockup's already been made today. I arrived at work to find not one, but two Colin the Caterpillars spread about the desk, and I thought, "Oh, that's a belated one for Hannah's birthday," which was about four hundred days ago. But in fact, it's Jane Garvey's birthday.
Jane Garvey· Host0:25
Yep.
Fi Glover· Host0:25
And I really apologize, Jane. I just forgot.
Jane Garvey· Host0:27
I did think of reminding you yesterday, and I thought, "No, that's just-" No, but why didn't you? Well, I-- if it were significant, like when my seventieth comes round.
Fi Glover· Host0:37
We're not still going to be working together when your seventieth comes around.
Jane Garvey· Host0:40
Then I expect you to host a firework display for me.
Fi Glover· Host0:43
[chuckles] We will need Hyde Park.
Jane Garvey· Host0:44
I don't want you to still be working when you're seventy.
Fi Glover· Host0:47
No. Well, actually, in the heat of the central line this morning, Fi, I don't wanna be working when I'm seventy.
Jane Garvey· Host0:53
[chuckles] No.
Fi Glover· Host0:53
Anyway, look, happy birthday.
Jane Garvey· Host0:54
Well, thank you.
Fi Glover· Host0:54
And I'm really sorry.
Jane Garvey· Host0:55
Thank you very much.
Fi Glover· Host0:55
So I've-- I got out the emergency card.
Jane Garvey· Host0:58
The card has been given. It was written in front of me.
Fi Glover· Host1:00
[chuckles] But-- Um. But then signed lovingly by the rest of the team.
Jane Garvey· Host1:04
Yes.
Fi Glover· Host1:04
And it was saying things like, "Who, who, who is she?"
Jane Garvey· Host1:06
[chuckles] It's got- Which one is that? ... a very deep and meaningful birthday message. "Jane, happy birthday. Don't go to France. You might not come back."
Fi Glover· Host1:14
Oh, God.
Jane Garvey· Host1:15
[laughs] I've checked the weather, and it's actually-- The, the weather goddesses are on my side 'cause it is very, very hot. And look, it's not funny, is it? 'Cause it's- No, it's not funny at all ... it's awful for some people. Um, but it does, it does drop to a, a manageable thirty-two