Modesty held together with a brooch and a prayer... (with Sarah Vaughan)
4/21/202654 min
It’s Tuesday and we’re all here, but Jane’s not entirely sure how she’s getting home. She can worry about that later... Jane and Fi tackle the big questions today: Was Ambridge a Roman settlement? Does the broadcasting industry have a disproportionate number of Brians? What did people do before buttons? And are hedgehogs creepy?
Plus, writer and journalist Sarah Vaughan discusses her latest book ‘Based on a True Story’.
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First 90 secondsFi Glover· Host0:00
We have launched Operation Epic Fury Stop start being a proper country When everyone says they're right Who do you believe? None of us knew the depth of that relationship If the lines are blurred He knew- Can you read between them? -the depth of the relationship When the story breaks Who brings perspective?
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Fi Glover· Host0:29
[upbeat music] Uh, has, has Olly Robbins stopped? That's not him, is it? [laughs] I think he must have done. I mean, apart from anything else, the select committee started at, what, nine o'clock. Mm. And no, nobody had had a comfort break. I always think that. I think, well, you know, surely- I know ...a klaxon sounds and everybody heads to the loo. By ten thirty, you'd be up to... Especially in the morning, you've had a lot of coffee. A lot of coffee, a lot of tea. Yep. You know. A lot of hydration. We're just, uh, briefly straying into politics there with a reference to Olly Robbins appearing at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Sir Olly. Sorry, Sir Olly. Yeah. Uh, so we, we can't yet tell you exactly- We can't ...what he said. You wouldn't want to hear it from us anyway. [laughs] Uh, it all needs a bit of shakedown-ing, doesn't it, before we know exactly. I think isn't the top line that he... [sighs] I wouldn't even go there, Fiona. [laughs] Well-