Avert your eyes, it's Tummy Time (with Abigail Disney)
5/6/20261 hr 5 min
We bet you pressed play on today's podcast praying we would talk about Dallas, didn't you? Well, you're in luck. Jane and Fi chat Dallas, Drake tribute acts, ageing gracefully, drinking before flights, and relaxing in jeans. There is a huge accent warning today. Please proceed with caution.
Plus, Abigail Disney, film producer and granddaughter of Roy O. Disney, discusses her documentary ‘The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales’, which looks at income inequality by focusing on the financial struggles of workers at her family’s company.
Our next book club pick will be a collection of short stories! 'Interpreter of Maladies' is by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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First 90 secondsFi Glover· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Right.
Jane Garvey· Host0:09
[chuckles] We've worked out there's a, there's a method of getting free pastry, which has only, uh, it's only just kind of become part of our morning routine here. Um, because if you go for a coffee at a certain time, you get free pastries 'cause they're giving them away.
Fi Glover· Host0:23
I know, but I don't-- They just look...
Jane Garvey· Host0:24
Sorry.
Fi Glover· Host0:26
Eve.
Jane Garvey· Host0:26
Eve, really.
Fi Glover· Host0:27
They, they look like they're free for a reason.
Jane Garvey· Host0:31
Oh, no. You're such a cynic.
Fi Glover· Host0:34
[chuckles] Well, they're slight- they're always the slightly charred ones, aren't they?
Jane Garvey· Host0:37
[chuckles] God.
Fi Glover· Host0:38
And they're those weird- The chocolate twists ... twists.
Jane Garvey· Host0:41
Yeah.
Fi Glover· Host0:41
Yeah.
Jane Garvey· Host0:41
Chocolate twists.
Fi Glover· Host0:42
Which are somewhere between a, a cake and a-- I-- If it's, if it's going to be a twist- I-- Yeah ... it needs to be a cheese twist. I can't cope with a chocolate twist.
Jane Garvey· Host0:51
Okay. I don't like cheese twists. But everybody's different, and that is one of the reasons that we love to keep having these conversations and bringing in other people. I tell you what people are telling us about, Fi.
Fi Glover· Host1:01
Well, there's still quite a lot about Liz Earle.
Jane Garvey· Host1:02
Well, that's what I was gonna go to. [chuckles] So shall we start there?
Fi Glover· Host1:06
Let's.
Jane Garvey· Host1:07
Let's just emphasize, by the way, um, just to, if you missed it yesterday, uh, she's number one in the hardback bestseller charts. So I totally get that not everyone appreciates her message, but some people want to read it.
Fi Glover· Host1:21
And you can do both things at the same time, can't you? You can be interested in somebody else's research about how