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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I'm Dilly Carter, the organized one, and this is Sort Your Life Out Unpacked. Get ready to unpack three boxes with my celebrity guest. Every box has an item from their own home, plus a load of stories and memories. And stand by for my tips on how to sort your own life out too.
My guest this episode is a staple ingredient of lunchtimes around the country, having broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for over 23 years. He's also well loved around breakfast time, however, presenting Channel 5's weekday morning show since 2018. I can only presume that by dinner time, he is very tired and ready for bed.
He describes himself as a panic organiser, but says that below the mess on the surface, he's in fact a solid 8 out of 10 at organisation. It is the legend that is Jeremy Vine.
Hi, Dilly.
Welcome. Hello.
Thank you. Very exciting.
Oh, so exciting. So tell me, in which ways are you disorganised and organised at the same time?
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Chapter 2: What insights does Jeremy Vine share about living with grown-up daughters?
And I think we've got a sofa. That's what I'm proud of.
Oh, how lovely. Complete the sentence. My bedside table is... It's got three alarm clocks. It's got three alarm clocks? Yeah, because I... Oh, I suppose you get up very early.
I do, and I sleep so deeply. I can't even tell you. I mean, the alarm clock every morning is a complete shock. It's like I'm thinking I'm in nuclear war or something. There's one that's a light that comes on, like, you know, sunrise light.
Yep.
Then there's one that is like a fire alarm. And then the third one would be like a more insistent, you've got to get up now, Jeremy.
You set them all at different times, like 4 o'clock, 4.15, 4.30.
Yeah, 4.41, but then 4.30 and 4.36. Is that crazy? Sorry.
No. Is your wife up too?
No, no. Well, this is now embarrassing because she said, if you're going to get up with three alarm clocks at 4.30, you're going to have to go in the spare room. So in the week, I'm in the spare room. And when I say this in the hearing of my daughters, they always go, marriage in crisis. And I say, no girls, it's just because.
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Chapter 3: How does Jeremy Vine balance work and family life?
Everyone starts laughing.
And no one sees her.
I mean, nothing to see. She's just a Brazilian. Nothing to see.
She's just a Brazilian beautiful PT trainer. Nothing to see here, Deli.
Nothing to see here.
Shall we have a look at your first item? So in the box Jeremy has taken out, it looks like a very old-fashioned corkscrew. It doesn't look like it's got enough of the screwy bit on the bottom to actually screw into a wine bottle. It looks more like it's a natural tool.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a tool.
It's a tool from my dad. And that tool is called a gimlet.
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Chapter 4: What emotional significance does Jeremy attach to the tool from his father?
The ABC Murders, Poirot detective story, Agatha Christie. Now this is, oh my gosh, I mean, this is a very old book. Tell me what this means to you.
Agatha is my queen.
Agatha is the queen.
When I was 11, my mum gave me a book called Hercule Poirot's Christmas. And from that moment, I was hooked.
Because this is like paperback. It's quite a soft book, isn't it?
Yeah, it's a really old version. I mean, it could have been maybe printed in the 40s or 50s. I'll tell you about the ABC murders because I didn't want to bring in murder on the Orient Express. I didn't want to bring in death on the Nile or any of the really obvious ones. I thought I'd bring in a really unusual one.
This book is about a sequence of murders where the first murder victim is something like Alan Ashton in Andover. And the second one is Betty Burrows in Burton. That's just an example of her genius.
And at this stage in life, when I turned 60, I had, I'm going to sound like I'm blowing my own trumpet a bit here, but just let me do this one thing, which is that I'd always wanted to write cozy crime or whodunits. I went to a publisher and I said, I'd really like to write one. And she said, well, give it a go. And so I wrote two and the second one comes out in April. Congratulations. Thank you.
And the first was a bestseller when I was just turning 60. So I had this incredible moment of the whole thing coming full circle.
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