Ruthie - The Lockdown Sessions Podcast
1) 'The producers of Love Island knew all about Coronavirus before anybody.
Ruthie is dragged back to the mic for another lockdown session in which she stresses the importance of mattress toppers, and worries she's not committed enough to anything. 'What am I going to do for ...Show More
2) Tik Tok explained - 'It's short videos, you watch for hours, and then feel terrible about yourself'
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, althou...Show More
3) 'I'll tell my future children about this, if I ever have any - if I ever get out of the house, that is.'
'When we establish the matriarchy,' says Ruth, 'The two men we'll save are Bill Gates and Richard Osman. And maybe Leonardo DiCaprio and Harry Styles.' This week Ruth and Dad talk Eurovision, and Ic...Show More
4) 'I'm all jigsawed out. I need to go back to Uni.'
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 ...Show More
5) 'No-one asked for the 'new normal.' I was quite happy with the 'old normal.'
In the first of a new series, 19-year-old Ruthie is feeling the generation gap particularly keenly, reluctantly furloughed from the Universtiy of York and trapped in lockdown with her ma and pa. In th...Show More
'No-one asked for the 'new normal.' I was quite happy with the 'old normal.'
30:22 | Apr 27th, 2020
6) starting at University of York and settling in
We edited together some clips of Ruthie, Uni, Dad, and Me as our entry for the British Podcast Awards, but as it seems those awards will not happen we thought we'd share them anyway. The clips are fr...Show More
7) 'This is dad's hot take on Coronavirus - makes him sound like Stalin!'
The very last Ruthie - Uni, Dad & Me, for the time being at least, as University shuts & Ruth is isolated with parents. In the swansong podcast, we look at the economics of Coronavirus, the death of ...Show More
8) 'We already were the anxious generation, now this...'
...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 o...Show More
9) Leopardskin ears - and begging for drinks in Wetherspoons
...in which dad is confused when a leopardskin bowtie and comedy leopardskin ears arrive for him. AlsoRuthie and dad discuss what the effects of Coronavirus are likely to be on University life. Ruth, ...Show More
10) 'It's quite feminist, there's a lot of armpit hair.'
Family relationships are a major thread in the latest father-and-daughter podcast. With dad being a 'spooky' middle child, and Ruthie the baby of the family, birth order is discussed, as well as the p...Show More