3 Nov 2018

Interviews with lots of laughs: 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane'

From The Podcast Hour, 12:40 pm on 3 November 2018
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Fortunately logo (Supplied) Photo: Supplied by BBC Radio 4

Fi Glover and Jane Garvey are BBC presenters who met up hosting an event together a few years back: they got on well and made people laugh, and 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' was born.

Now nearly 70 episodes in, this weekly show is full of unscripted chat, and longer interviews with guests who come mainly from the world of broadcasting and entertainment.

They have some fun along the way with the fact that production isn't always all that slick and big budget; the chats often get recorded in the BBC staff canteen, with all sorts of stuff going on around them!  

Meanwhile some of their wry, self-deprecating riffs on life (perhaps about the weather, parenting, films, hipster culture, or food) will have you laughing out loud.

We play some of an episode of 'Fortunately...with Fi and Jane' (produced by Vivien Jones for BBC Radio 4) where they speak to Scottish tennis coach Judy Murray, who is also the mother of tennis playing brothers Jamie and Andy Murray.