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Off Air with Jane & Fi

Absolutely rocking some sock suspenders (with Jeremy Vine)

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

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

We've got some cockle-warmers in today's episode... Jane and Fi chat about runaway buses, disco-techs, unsettled trousers, charity shop donations, invasions of rocks, and the dramatisation of Off Air...


Plus, broadcaster Jeremy Vine discusses his latest book 'Turn the Dial for Death'.


You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi


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


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.radioFollow us on Instagram! @janeandfi


Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury

Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Friday night trip to the dump

0:10.4

That is Rosie

0:12.0

Our executive producer

0:13.7

She has a woman after our own heart

0:16.0

I'll be seeing you there every weekend now

0:17.8

You know you don't have to book a slot

0:19.1

It was a real tip bit you gave me yesterday, thank you. Yeah, it was a chabooge bit. For you, it was. Own it, sister. That was good. Right, I'm done. I'm spent. Bye then. Thursday's podcast on a beautiful spring day here in central London where, I don't know, do you think the summer promises good things't know the weather forecast for the next week or so it's very good here today Jane I think is the first day that there isn't that bitter element to the wind it's it's still windy in London but it's not no it's not so I've come to work without a coat on in celebration. God, I mean,

0:55.8

I wouldn't have gone that far. I regretted it. I've got my Mac. As soon as I got to D'Alston

1:01.2

Station. Is there a wind tunnel element? Oh, M.G. Well, there's a wind tunnel element outside

1:08.2

our building that is properly spooky. It's like bloody Siberia out there, isn't it? It is. That's God's judgment. No. No, of course not. Right, let's move on to a lovely card we've had. Lovely card. Quick, bring in the lovely card. Try not to make this job too complicated. No, Naomi, thank you so much, Naomi. She says she loves the show. And she sent

1:29.6

us a card over, just a laughing, slightly older lady. I would say she was guffawing in that image. She's got

1:34.8

good teeth. I mean, I don't know, who is the photograph? It doesn't say, it's from a multi-pack.

1:41.2

Okay, Naomi. And the card is made in China. I know it on the back. Anyway, I'm not sure if this will make the book club. Well, it won't, but it's a good tip. But my teenage children gave this book to me for Christmas. She sent us a copy of Caroline Creado Perez's book, Invisible Women, exposing data bias in a world design for men. And she says, I just thought it was really fascinating.

2:03.3

There's some shocking data in here on the lack of safe, clean toilets across the world

2:07.7

and the cost of all this on all levels.

2:10.7

And also, she notes on page 77 women's pensions data,

2:16.0

which Caroline does cover in this book. And it is a truth, and we know this,

2:20.5

and I think we have talked about it before, that women don't save as much as men into their pensions,

2:25.3

or women don't have pensions as big as men. But that's because we take time out of the workplace,

2:30.5

and even with what the British have now, which is this auto-enrollment, you have to be earning over, I think it's 10 grand a year.

2:39.6

And some women, of course, have at various jobs that they've had to have over the years because of caring obligations.

2:46.0

And they may not earn 10 grand in any of those jobs.

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