Jo's started her Christmas shopping, recorded her last 2025 Real Folk podcast with author, critic, comic and musician, Marc Burrows, which is Christmas themed with inspiration for a perfect stocking filler book or books. Her fun facts have absolutely nothing to do with Christmas, as usual they are randomly sourced and whatever takes her fancy at time of recording so find out what useful item was originally invented as wallpaper, what the word ultracrepidarian means and what hilarious World Championships Finland invented. 

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It's December join Jo for her thoughts on Christmas lights, giant spiders and some fun Christmas song facts, including the old favourites
 "Bing Crosby's "Jingle Bells" , Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and find out which Christmas song according to Guinness World Records has sold more than 50 million copies worldwide since its release in 1942.

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Jo's back after a week away filming in Kosovo, find out what else she's been up to and where her weird old brain is this week. Her fun facts are all about the price of things at Zurich Airport!

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Jo had a fantastic weekend chinwagging live on stage with the awesome Aussie that is Kathy Lette at The Folkestone Book Festival. Find out all about her last hectic week and listen out for her three fun Kathy Lette facts.

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Jo's blathering on about her love of autobiographies (Cher and Kathy Burke), Riot Women and Kathy Lette who she will be chatting to on stage at Folkestone's Book Festival this Friday. More about that next week. This episode also includes unwanted Oreos and dealing with mothers times two. Her fun facts are all about Australia.

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Jo's back in the building and back on track after a brief fly and flop to Menorca. Ten whole days without social media reconnecting with the simple things. Writing with a pad and pen again, starting every day with a Bucks Fizz, playing Scrabble and the tension melting away. Her fun facts are all about a strange looking creature she came across at her hotel. See episode photo.

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Jo's back in the land of the living.  Catch up with what's helped lift her mood this week including, haircuts, travelling and friends. Her fun facts are all friendship based.

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Jo's still a tad poorly and feeling a bit blue - so what to do? How do you get yourself out of a funk? Jo shares how her depression feels when it sporadically rears it's ugly head. This weeks facts are all blues busters including her favourite quotes from Virginia Woolf and one of her favourite Spike Milligan poems too.

Disclaimer: Photo no make up, getting over the lurgy.

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Last week Jo had a boozy night out with buddies, celebrated what would have been her dad's 90th birthday and learnt to play a new game. Find out what else she plans on learning by Christmas and some more fun facts. 

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Jo is coping with the ups and downs of life and global events in her own weird and wonderful way. Find out what she's been up to and how she deals with stressful situations. This weeks facts are all about the magnificent human that was Jane Goodall RIP.

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Jo had some exciting news whilst shooting a corporate comedy sketch - she's been invited to chair another amazing author session as part of the Folkestone Book Festival. Find out what she thought of Inside Number 9 - Stage Fright. Are you an on time person or always running late? Tune in to find out which one Jo is and why.  Her fun facts have morphed, for this week only, in to fun life quotes from the likes of Mae West, Walt Disney and Buddha

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This week Jo took her mum to see Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, was it a hit or a miss without our beloved matriarch Dame Maggie Smith?  Her fun facts this week are all Downton/Highclere Castle related. 

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Jo's been the wearer of many hats this week with her Casting Director hat on, writing her new show, decommissioning the gazebo, looking after her elderly mum in law and playing made up Scrabble. Her fun facts are all Scrabble related. Enjoy!

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Jo's had an eventful week dealing with rejection, fixing her website, her dog escaping, her mums kleptomania and Banksy. NB her mum did not steal a Banksy.  However, her three fun facts are all Banksy related. Did you know we have an original Banksy in Folkestone?

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Grab a cuppa and join Jo for another slice of slightly surreal life nonsense. Including a Tango update, another hilarious mumism and a plethora of toe related facts. 

This episodes photo is her hiding under a garage forecourt after being caught in a rainstorm on her cycle home from the gallery. #keepingitreal

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Jo had Bank Holiday Monday off to have an impromptu and highly entertaining BBQ to celebrate her first year living by the sea in Folkestone. Her fun facts are all BBQ related. Don't miss her very specific BBQ safety tips!

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Join Jo for smorgasbord of life's ups and downs from coping with elderly relatives, celebrations of life, faulty headphones and midnight wind. Her three fun facts are all about sea swimming.

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Jo injured herself falling into something earlier today, tune in to find out what it was, you will never guess.  It's been exactly ten years since Jo took one of her shows to the Edinburgh Fringe so her three fun facts are all about the Edinburgh Festival.  You'll also find out who she will be chatting with next on her other podcast Real Folk with Jo Burke.

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Jo's had her mum staying which involved keeping up with her on her scooter, spillages in shopping isles, crazy golf and blackberry picking. This weeks fun facts are all about foraging. Who knew it was so good for you?

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The Lionesses won the 2025 UEFA last night, so flying out of Jo's head this week are all things Tarzan, Bucks Fizz and Ladies Football related. Of course her fun facts are all about football too. Find out who really is the highest international goal scorer. The internet will tell you it's Ronaldo but the truth is it is a Canadian women called Christine Sinclair and he's not even close to her score.

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