Episodes

  • Tik Tok explained - 'It's short videos, you watch for hours, and then feel terrible about yourself'

    Tik Tok explained - 'It's short videos, you watch for hours, and then feel terrible about yourself'
    Jun 5 2020
    In the latest lockdown session, an increasingly demotivated Ruth - with student life suspended - tackles Black Lives Matter, explains Tik Tok, and learns some new words from Dad and Suzie Dent, although Dad gives a totally misleading definition of the word 'anomie.' Also Ella Fitzgerald, mundane celebrity sightings, and the efforts of the French to keep their language pure.

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    49 mins
  • 'I'm all jigsawed out. I need to go back to Uni.'

    'I'm all jigsawed out. I need to go back to Uni.'
    May 4 2020
    Ruthie and Dad remain locked down, and added to the hell of being stranded with aging parents, Ruth is also frustrated by the lack of progress in her Uni work. Online tuition is just not working, she says, and no-one seems to be thinking about a solution for Britain's students. Also, the 'New Normal' everybody's talking about - although Ruth was quite happy with the old Normal - should include a rebalancing of the nation's resources away from London to the North. Ruth also has a 400-year-old swipe at the Mayflower pilgrims of 1620. Popular culture references include Love Island, Grays Anatomy, Friends, Frazier, and Tootsie.

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    45 mins
  • 'We already were the anxious generation, now this...'

    'We already were the anxious generation, now this...'
    Mar 18 2020
    ...in which dad questions whether some young people view Coronavirus in some bizarre way as a payback for Brexit, and Ruthie laments losing what might have been the best summer of her life. She also offers free French lessons just to fill the yawning time chasm in front of her, and to keep in practice. And why it's not right to compare the current crisis to wartime - and Wakefield's dance of death, the Gas Mask disco in the city. Musically, Sly and the Family Stone take on British singer Emily Burns

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    44 mins