A small boat with a flat bottom... (with Vassos Alexander)
Off Air... with Jane and Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Boom! A knowledge chunk of joy is coming your way in this episode! Keep an eye out for that… Jamal and Fi also chat retirement, capes, murals, and banned words.
Plus, Virgin Radio’s Vassos Alexander discusses his new book 'Swimmingly'.
If you want to come and see us at Fringe by the Sea, you can buy tickets here: www.fringebythesea.com/fi-jane-and-judy-murray/
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| 0:00.0 | I really always like the food up the mountains. |
| 0:02.5 | I remember saying to somebody once that I really liked. |
| 0:04.7 | Yes, schnitzel. |
| 0:06.0 | Spetzel. |
| 0:07.1 | Spetzel. |
| 0:08.2 | And... |
| 0:09.2 | Rost. |
| 0:10.3 | Rosti. |
| 0:11.8 | And all of that. |
| 0:12.7 | So it's basically just beige carbs as well, isn't it? |
| 0:15.2 | With an awful lot of cheese. |
| 0:17.4 | This episode of off air is brought to you by Washington, D.C. |
| 0:20.9 | The city? |
| 0:21.7 | Yep, the one and only. |
| 0:22.9 | Washington, D.C. is the city for sightseeing, museum going and even outdoor adventures. |
| 0:28.3 | It has got a variety of nightlife, dining, art and theatre with over 100 free things to do. |
| 0:34.5 | Why not take advantage of the city's green spaces, like biking through America's |
| 0:39.4 | oldest national park, Rock Creek Park. Or you could see a show in a living presidential memorial. |
| 0:45.3 | Or try out your sea legs and go kayaking around the wharf. The list goes on and on. There's only |
| 0:51.3 | one place you can do all of these things. There's only one DC. |
| 0:55.2 | And this month, in a special episode of the podcast, we're chatting to the secretary of the |
| 1:00.0 | Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch, who looks after 17 museums in the city. |
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