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Jo's had Quantum Flu, listen in to find out what the hell she means. Also find out whether or not she managed to learn five Christmas tunes on the keyboard. Her final facts of the year are all about Christmas dinners in Japan, Tudor times and the Victorian mulled wine.This could be Jo's last ever Utter Burke, so if you've enjoyed listen and want another year of her unique musings let her know.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Jo's fourth attempt at recording this weeks catch up, find out why and what she thought of the Banksy exhibition in London called Limitless. This weeks facts for your foggy or possibly hung over old brains are all about Banksy.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.  Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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. Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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! Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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. Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.  Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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. Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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 Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.  Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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! Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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?Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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. #keepingitrealFollow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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!Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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. Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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? Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

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. Click here for the history of women's football.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Find out why Jo felt she could not attend Folkestone's Most Wuthering Heights Day this year and hear more about what actually happened at the London March for Palestine and why she felt compelled to be there. This weeks facts include Wuthering Heights Day, Holocaust history in schools and laughter related facts.Donate if you can.Click here and scroll down to the last video of a retired Priest's story of her arrest under the new law.Socialist Worker Article about the march.Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

From 95th birthdays, Tango updates and the filmed version of her spoken word piece, Seeing Red. Jo's had a busy old week. Have a listen and find out why she is a women who cannot be contained! Her facts this week are all protest related from Suffragettes, Poll Tax and Iraq War protests. The London Protest Route is here for this Saturday 19th July starting along The Embankment. Follow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Jo co-hosted the Folkestone Book Festival Launch last week, tune in to find out who will be speaking at the festival in November. Tickets available now for Joanne Harris, Irvine Welsh and many more. Her fun facts are all custard related, see links below. Jo winds up this weeks catch up by premiering her, hot of the press poem, Seeing Red, written, performed and produced by Jo with music by Julian Eftei.   Link to Channel 4 documentary: https://www.channel4.com/progra.../gaza-doctors-under-attackHow to walk on custard Colnel Custard Paul Megran World Record pies in face Leslie Lemon WW2 veteran aged 106 secret to long lifeFollow Jo on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Jo's been preparing scripts for a Channel 4 new writers opportunity deadline, plus it was Phil's birthday so listen to find out what experience she bought instead of a physical gift. It's still hot hot hot here in the UK so why not have a dip with a flip flop? Her three fun facts are all tango based this week and below are the links she mentions in this weeks Strictly tango facts:Longest tango You can watch edited highlights of their record-breaking dancefest here.World record tango spins watch it here.Follow her on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

We are half way through the second year of Utter Burke! Thank you for supporting Jo's chaotic life and general nonsense.Have a listen to find out how Jo's been balancing life, work and fun. This week you get Jo's take on mobility scooters, honest funeral speeches and notes on how not to woo a woman. Plus three or fun funeral facts, yes fun facts about funerals...no one get's outta here alive...Follow her on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Find out why Jo's in her knickers and vest! She's been helping out on a friends film set (not the reason she's in her pants), hear her mum's story about a weirdly generous passenger on her coach trip and she has three facts about this weeks Strawberry Moon. Plus an Ab Fab recommendation on BBC SoundsFollow her on Instagram #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Find out why Jo's been on the floor with her stunt woman mum-in-law, what else she's been up to this week, plus three fun facts which are all cat related.Following her #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Jo's in fine fettle as her other podcast Real Folk with Jo Burke has reached over 1K downloads! This one isn't far behind either. Yay. Find out if Jo is still bouncing, her thoughts on Bob Mortimer's debut novel The Satsuma Complex, Lynda La Plante's new autobiography Getting Away with Murder and Matthew Perry's book Friends, Lovers and The Big Terrible Thing. Plus many more ramblings about maintaining a healthy work/life balance and of course her three fun facts all connected to the bore of chores.Following her #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

It's another May Bank holiday Monday here in the UK, hooray! Jo recorded this episode in the evening, slightly under the influence of an Aperol Spritz and whilst sipping a 'Jold Fashioned' her version of the 'Old Fashioned' cocktail of the 1920's.  Find out how to make her version, her gazebo story and her review of the latest Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible offering The Final Reckoning. Plus as usual her three fun facts all Mission Impossible related.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

How often to you do something you wouldn't normally do?  Jo saw Nikita from Strictly Come Dancing's new show and has three Strictly related facts for you.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

Jo's still bouncing every day, find out if she got any of the work that was in the pipeline and what she's else she's been up to this week. Her three fun facts are summer related including hornets, frisbies and The Eiffel Tower.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching @joburkecomedy

The UK had a heatwave for a whole week. Jo actually relaxed and enjoyed some much needed Vitamin D and read her new favourite book, Women Who Run With Wolves, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in a week.  She also covers subjects from growing new teeth, to what we will all look like the future, to how many farts would fill a party balloon and how it might improve your VE Day celebrations. Just a average week in Jo's life... plus three fun facts.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching.

Jo is feeling bouncy today, tune in to find out why and what three bouncy facts about trampolining she has for you this week. For reasons only known to her, this topic leads her to shares her thoughts on jeans, The Battle of Hastings (1066) and smoking at work.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching.

Jo's Eastered well and hopes you have too. Have a listen to her thoughts on happiness, positivity, zillionaires in space, Dolly Parton and of course a few fun facts, as always, coming your way which include some misbehaving parrots.For the first time EVER you can also watch this episode as it was recorded live here https://www.youtube.com/@joburkecomedy or on instagram.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening and/or watching.

Early bird Jo is in her pyjamas today as she records. What are you wearing today? You don't have to answer that, instead just grab a cuppa and have a listen to more of her mind meanderings, from hair colour to making tree thrones to Star Trek.  As always for 2025, she rounds off her catch up with three fun facts, this week they are all travel related.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and more info on Jo's work here: joburke.comThanks for listening!

Jo's in a splendid mood this week because Utter Burke has reached an important milestone. So she wants to give a huge shout out and a big 'THANK YOU' to everyone who listens and has shared the show with friends.  Find out what else Jo's been up to and what three fun facts she's prepared especially for you this week. #joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and for more info on Jo's work click joburke.com

Via the medium of speaking, Jo gets you up to speed with her life.  From Mother's Day stunt scones, to jet skiing patios and defining what's really hard in life.She hasn't prepared this weeks facts, so scroll through google with her to see what three facts she picks just for you this week. Do you know what colour the universe is? Tune in to find out...#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and for more info on Jo's work click joburke.com

Jo's had a rollercoaster of a week. Unbelievably involving hospitals, dream jobs, a destructive lorry and a World Champion haggis eater! Only in Jo's world do these things collide in a single week. Never fear, she still remembered your fun facts which she found hard to share without crying with laughter. Enjoy.#joburkeinsta you can also listen FREE to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke. Buy her books from CustardHQ and for more info on Jo's work click joburke.com

Waiting...do you hate it? Are you impatient? Are her three facts this week about waiting? Did she forget it's St Patrick's Day today? All these questions answered and of course much more verbal nonsense that you never asked for and didn't want or need to know.  #joburkeinsta you can also listen to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke.

The sun shone at the weekend in the UK - what did you get up to? Find out what Jo was up to in the sunshine and what three facts she has up her sleeve for you this week. Also a bonus 'At home with Jo and Phil' moment. #joburkeinsta you can also listen to Jo interviewing authors, comedians, film makers and more on Real Folk with Jo Burke.

Jo discusses more tell tale signs of ageing and offers unsolicited and unorthodox suggestions on how people 'of a certain age', might get a more comfy nights sleep. She also discovered her childhood diaries whilst unpacking her books and she shares a snippet or two of what life was like for twelve year old Jo Burke in 1985. Her three fun facts are therefore all diary related including Anne Frank, Samuel Pepys and Sue Townsend. Follow @joburkeinsta you may also be interested in her other podcast Real Folk with Jo Burke

Jo's a tad husky today, find out why and what else she's been up to this week, along with three fun facts all relating to DISCO. #joburkeinsta

How's Jo doing this week? Check in and find out who received another embarrassing autocorrect from Jo. Where you can listen to a taster of her other podcast, Real Folk with Jo Burke, on the old BBC and let's not forget Jo's three fabulous (mildly interesting/entertaining) facts of the week, all revolving around pancakes, of course! @joburkeinsta

Jo's been a bit blue this week but has powered on through, as you do, inventing a new name for getting angry with decorating along the way too. Pull up a chair, raise your feet and a glass or mug for a few minutes of life through the lens of an Utter Burke. #joburkeinsta

January is jolly well out of the way. Hooray! Catch up with Jo's February so far, including a couple of lovely messages from a reader and a listener, the perils of sending texts with typos and info about her latest 'Real Folk' podcast with author Dan Parkes, discussing his debut book, Titanic Legacy: The Captain, the Daughter and the Spy a new angle on the Titanic tragedy. So you guessed it, Jo's fun facts this week are all to do with Titanic. #joburkeinsta

Jo's stream of consciousness to help you make it through the long month of January.  Featuring biscuits, windows, aging and of course three fun facts. #joburkeinsta

What's Jo been up to? Well...pondering and pontificating about why do so few women chose fishing as a pastime, weird dreams, plus she shares another three random interesting facts. This week there are 'facts' about fish, memory and laughing. Disclaimer: Jo doesn't not fact check her facts, if it's on the internet it simply must be true. Right? #joburkeinsta

Is it all in a name? Jo discusses (as always with herself) nominative determinism. She's had a busy week recording, editing and booking new guest for her other podcast 'Real Folk with Jo Burke' have a listen and like/subscribe so you don't miss an episode. She's also been focusing on all her other plans for 2025 as well as the NEW FOR 2025 FUN FACTS in each episode. You can follow Jo on instagram @joburkeinsta