Tiny woman, tiny gnome statue (with Gisèle Pelicot)
5/26/202647 min
Jane and Fi ponder why men love such big statues of themselves, just how much more red North London can get, and why Michael Gove just doesn't remember them (sad face).
They're also joined by Gisèle Pelicot, who speaks about her memoir 'A Hymn to Life'
Our next book club pick will be a collection of short stories! 'Interpreter of Maladies' is by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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First 90 secondsJane Garvey· Host0:00
[upbeat music] [sighs] Hang on a second. I'm not on. Hang on. Wait.
Fi Glover· Host0:12
Nope.
Jane Garvey· Host0:12
I probably am on. I'm just... Oh, look at that. Put it in the socket. Right. Welcome everybody to a sun-drenched London town.
Fi Glover· Host0:23
Oh, that's better.
Jane Garvey· Host0:23
And did you have a little weekend away?
Fi Glover· Host0:26
So part of a weekend- Yeah ... was spent outside of the capital. Most of it spent in the capital, with the boiling tarmac smell- Yeah.
Jane Garvey· Host0:34
God ...
Fi Glover· Host0:35
uh, emanating all around. It is-- It has just been too hot. I know we quite frequently complain- [chuckles] ... but it's thirty-four degrees already in London town, and that is a struggle just because we haven't got the infrastructure, and the tubes aren't air-conned and all of that kind of stuff.
Jane Garvey· Host0:51
Or the temperament.
Fi Glover· Host0:51
Or the temperament.
Jane Garvey· Host0:52
That too.
Fi Glover· Host0:52
Uh, it's a bank holiday weekend as well, and it was also-- It was a massive footballing weekend in the part of London that I live in, and there were some very... They were beyond dehydrated people- Yes ... Jane, uh, on Monday [chuckles] who were still very intent on rehydrating.
Jane Garvey· Host1:10
Yes. Okay. And I think things are only gonna get worse next weekend. I think the weather is changing, but Arsenal have got another big game.
Fi Glover· Host1:15
They've got... Yeah. But also they've got their big, big parade, haven't they, next Sunday? There is a restaurant. It's a very fancy restaurant. Our executive producer, Rosie, is in with us today. Uh, she is the wife of a chef, and she knows,