Am I in danger of sounding a trifle pompous? (with Ben Macintyre)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Fi's still at home but feeling better. However, relationships with Nancy are somewhat tense. Jane and Fi chat cable-tied wreaths, house guests, and going out after dark.
Plus, historian, author, and writer-at-large for The Times, Ben Macintyre, discusses his book The Siege.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | just, he gets worse and worse. |
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| 1:55.3 | Thank you. Now, welcome to off air. We're in a slightly different studio. I know people love this detail. |
| 2:03.8 | And Eve's in charge with me here in Times Towers, but Fee is still confined to barracks, where Nancy has been providing support of a kind, but are relations between the two of you getting |
| 2:10.1 | a little bit stretched or tense? What would you say? Well, I think, Jay, the truth is that we've just |
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