A wooden seat for a golden hind
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome! On the agenda today is being a maverick in the bedroom - no, not like that - we're talking bed sheets, as well as having more loo roll than you let on, the definition of camp, teaching nose-blowing, and style mistakes that are 'making you look older'.
Plus, Fi chats to Peter Hammond and Ash Smith, the real campaigners portrayed in Channel 4's Dirty Business.
There's no podcast on Monday as Jane and Fi are both off, so we'll see you on Tuesday.
Check out our YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi
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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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. I may never recover. I'm a bit of a first world problem, but it looks like it might be sorted. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, I might have to send one of those heavily adjectival emails. |
| 0:21.9 | Are you a good complainer? |
| 0:23.9 | Oh, I don't know, actually. |
| 0:25.7 | I think I'm quite good on paper. |
| 0:27.8 | I think I'm really, really hopeless in person. |
| 0:32.1 | I think I'm kind of with you. |
| 0:33.4 | I think I can do a good, pithy, incandescent email. |
| 0:37.4 | But if I'm very angry, IRRL, I just burst into tears. |
| 0:41.0 | Yes, and I just get genuinely upset, upset. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah, so, yep. |
| 0:47.9 | And I do think it would make the most fabulous, fabulous radio series, |
| 0:53.9 | which you would call your call is important to us, |
| 0:58.3 | where you just play back, people who've lost it in call centre calls, because I always really |
| 1:03.4 | feel for the person on the other end of the line. |
| 1:05.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:05.5 | But also, it's just, if you were going to make sure that somebody was at the end of their tether, |
| 1:12.2 | then you would put them on hold for 45 minutes and then cut them off, |
| 1:15.9 | and then you'd make them call again, and you'd play some absolutely rubbish music at them for another 47 minutes. |
| 1:22.9 | Well, you know, when they say this call, calls can be recorded, or all calls are recorded, |
| 1:27.4 | what is it they say? All calls are recorded for training purposes. Yeah. That always makes me think, oh, okay, well, I work, however irritated I am, I don't want to come across as really horrible. So I'm always uber polite, because as you say, the people on the other end, let's be honest, they're often in India. Yeah, it's not their fault. It's not their fault. It is not their fault. |
| 1:47.2 | Whatever's happened to you. |
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