PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jane Garvey has worked in broadcasting since 1987. She was the first voice on BBC Radio 5 Live when it opened and presented the station's award-winning Breakfast and Drive programmes with Peter Allen. In 2007 she moved not just to Radio 4, but to Woman's Hour - and discovered she'd have to prove herself all over again. Just as listeners began to adjust to her, she decided she better leave before it was too late. She credits Fortunately - the hit podcast she does with Fi Glover - with saving her sanity. Fi Glover currently is the voice behind The Listening Project on BBC Radio 4, and My Perfect Country for the BBC World Service. She worked at BBC Radio 5 Live for seven years, hosting shows like Sunday Service, with Charlie Whelan and Andrew Pierce, Late Night Live, and the Afternoon Show, before moving to BBC Radio 4 as the host of Broadcasting House and then Saturday Live. She now 'chunters waspishly along' with fellow host Jane Garvey about fellow BBC talent and their own lives on Fortunately. Their shared BBC Sounds podcast, Fortunately, which won the Comedy Show of the Year at the Arias in 2018, and a silver Spotlight Award, has been downloaded more than twenty million times.
Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much. * Elizabeth Day * I want to be like Fi and Jane when I grow up. * Clare Balding * A book like no other. Honest and very, very funny. Some bits made me want to cheer - a sentence on parenting teenage girls was so good I may get it tattooed on myself, possibly in Hebrew. * Sara Cox * If books were bubble baths... this was a truly luxurious read - filled with warmth, wit and wisdom. I enjoyed it so much that I actually felt guilty afterwards - books shouldn't be this enjoyable should they? Pages of poignancy, laughter and honest sharing. Fi and Jane are no better than they should be. And that's saying an awful lot. * Anita Anand * Honestly these two will stop at nothing for attention. * Kirsty Wark * You'll laugh, you'll nod your head so vigorously in agreement that you'll end up with whiplash and you'll buy a copy of this book for all your friends for Christmas. If you loved the late, great Victoria Wood, then you'll love Fi and Jane too. -- Sarra Manning * RED MAGAZINE * Friends, comrades, naughty girls at the back of the class, Glover and Garvey adopt their trademark approach of oh FFS why doesn't everyone just do one ... It made me howl and snort the G&T that I just knew was going to give me a 72 hour hangover if I had another one. -- Sam Baker * NOON * The broadcasting duo are on fine form... I predict this will be a pre-Christmas hit in book and audio format, proving, once again, this pair's relevance. -- Patricia Nicol * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * Glover and Garvey are smart and perceptive with a dry sense of humour and a knack of hitting the nail squarely on the head... [the book is] wise, laugh-out loud funny and, just like the authors themselves, it never preaches. -- Emma Lee Potter * SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE * Hilarious and perceptive * INSIDE SOAP * If their radio incarnations are sensible and restrained, and their podcast selves freewheeling and prone to corpsing, the tone here lands somewhere in between. There is fluency and professionalism, but also intimacy and silliness that makes their podcast such a delight. To spend time with these two is to eavesdrop on a slightly sozzled, bracingly candid conversation between pals. -- Fiona Sturges * GUARDIAN - audiobook review *
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