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Off Air with Jane & Fi

A little bit backed up (with Dr. Sian Williams)

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

News, Relationships, Community, Society & Culture, The Times, Chat, Entertainment News, Entertainment, Conversation, Jane Garvey, Fi Glover, Women, Times Radio

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jane and Fi are back together and taking a trip down memory lane - hair bobbles, sun cream, puberty, and embarrassing photos that, thankfully, they’re willing to show to the team... They also discuss unwanted surprises, celebrity sightings, the manosphere, hair adornments, and meddling with the thermometer.


Plus, Dr Sian Williams, presenter and chartered counselling psychologist, discusses her new book 'The Power of Anxiety'.


Check out our YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi


Our new playlist 'Coiled Spring' is up and running: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tmoCpbp42ae7R1UY8ofza


Our next book club pick is 'A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute.


Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.


If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio


Follow us on Instagram! @janeandfi


Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury

Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler


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0:00.0

Recently going for it, you're hanging on in there.

0:11.0

I think we're solidly motoring down the middle lane, just annoying drivers behind us as we go.

0:19.0

At the middle lane, you shouldn't hog it, should you? I find it difficult these

0:24.2

days. Not to. I don't like the buzzing in and out of the slow lane. No. No. At all. And I wonder

0:32.9

whether, do you think driverless cars, because they'll be, they would have scraped the AI on drivers who were just rubbish drivers.

0:40.6

Do you think some driverless cars will just be shit drivers?

0:43.6

Well, yeah, it stands for reason.

0:44.9

Thought about that, but that's a really good point.

0:47.0

There'll be some really careless, useless, incompetent lane hogging, driverless cars, yeah, if they are using AI, yeah. And there'll be, unfortunately, there'll be aggressive boy racers as well, won't there, logically? There certainly will be. Can that be true? Could someone help us here? That can't be right, can I? No. I'm sure it won't, but let's just imagine a world where it is because that's daunting.

1:12.7

We're sorry we had a day off yesterday, but thank you for the amazing emails over the last couple of days.

1:17.7

Much, much appreciated.

1:19.7

And I just wanted to mention that we've had a couple of people asking about and singing the praises of the amazing Lisa Tarbuck, who was never a... Well, she wasn't... Was she a colleague about us? She wasn't directly a colleague, but we're both big admirers, aren't we? Yeah, I mean, we work for the same corporation and we loved her. So let's call her a dear colleague. A dear, dear friend and colleague. But a certified radio genius. Very much so. Absolutely no doubt about it.

1:45.3

And I can tell you, because I have a friend who's a friend, and Lisa's fine.

1:49.6

Don't worry about her.

1:50.5

She's just had enough, and she just wants to do her own thing at the weekend.

1:54.8

For people who are maybe outside of the BBC broadcasting realm,

1:59.4

and there are such creatures, Jane.

2:01.9

I know, hard to believe. So Lisabock was doing a show on Saturday evening wasn't she and long running I mean over a

2:07.4

decade I think oh a long long time and it was more um parallel universe than show wasn't it really

2:14.6

I used to listen uh on the train coming back from the North West,

2:20.3

and sometimes it would just, it went to a kind of surreal gallop

2:25.1

and took you to places you had never dreamed existed.

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