'A rampant cropped-hair feminist' (with Felicity Spector)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
It's the last podcast of the week and we're tumbling into Thursday... literally. It's Jane's last day flying semi-solo, holding down the fort, and battening down the hatches - she really does it all! Jane and Eve talk men in power, the best cinemas in the city, bilingualism, and life without a loaf.
Plus, television producer and journalist Felicity Spector discusses her book ‘Bread and War’, ahead of the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | What did you just say, Jane? |
| 0:10.0 | Oh God, it's Thursday and what Eve wants to draw your attention to, and it's quite cruel actually, is an incident that happened about 45 minutes ago. |
| 0:23.5 | Do you want to explain or not? No, why don't you do it? |
| 0:25.6 | We're about to do a pre-record for our upcoming guest, |
| 0:29.3 | and she was on the Zoom call, and Jane realized she'd forgotten her phone. |
| 0:34.2 | So she quickly dashed out the studio. |
| 0:36.1 | I am quite a quick mover. |
| 0:37.4 | My God, you were rapid, |
| 0:38.7 | and then you dashed back in, and there was two wheelie chairs next to each other. I'm not |
| 0:43.7 | sure which one you were aiming for, but you landed in between them. And I fell on, you |
| 0:49.1 | come onto the floor. And I said, oh, Jane's here, Jane's here. |
| 0:54.6 | I said, oh, no, she's not. |
| 0:56.0 | She's gone. |
| 0:57.1 | And of course, you'll be glad to hear that serious injury was actually avoided. |
| 1:02.8 | That didn't happen. |
| 1:04.2 | Because if it had, Eve would have been much nicer than she's currently being. |
| 1:07.7 | She's also very upset that were no cameras rolling at this boat. |
| 1:29.2 | Jane said, well, you've got your memories. I could have broken the internet if there'd been video. When you tried to get back up because both the chairs were on wheels, they were kind of getting away from you. Okay. Right. So it's Thursday. Actually, it's quite a big day here in the United Kingdom, isn't it, Eve? It's huge. |
| 1:30.2 | It is February the 19th, 2026. |
| 1:33.7 | And I mean, I've got to just, I've mentioned this before, but I am in a very, very small group of people, probably women, for whom Prince Andrew, as he then was, was our first crush. |
| 1:48.0 | And it's a long, long time ago that he was in a position to be anybody's first crush. |
| 1:53.1 | But nevertheless, in the spirit of transparency, I've got to say that it was my experience. |
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