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Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This edition is one for all you sailors - ahoy! Jane and Fi chat ships and fruity cruises, lemon curd, memorial benches, and charismatic famous people.
Plus, Fi speaks to Rosie Maguire, Policy and Programmes Manager at the Centre for Thriving Places, and Clare Bracey, Director of Policy, Campaigns & Communications at Become, about what happens when private companies operate our care services.
Ending Extraction in the UK Care System is a report that has been jointly put together by researchers at the Centre For Thriving Places, the Centre for Local Economic Strategies, the New Economics Foundation and Co-Operatives UK. You can find it on: www.centreforthrivingplaces.org.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Now, this will be quite quick, because it turns out they're giving away free stuff in the |
| 0:11.6 | canteen. They are. I need to get a wiggle on. They're giving daily dose cold pressed juice. |
| 0:16.1 | I've got a super straw, which is strawberry, apple, lemon and basil. But you can share this. If you don't get there in time and they've given away all the freebies, I'll share this with you. What's the combination again in that? Strawberry, apple, lemon and basil. Criky, basil. And it's cold pressed. I never really understand that. I mean, I understand what the term means. What does it mean? But, well, it's |
| 0:39.3 | pressed in a cold way. But I don't understand why you'd ever have a warm press or a hot press. |
| 0:47.5 | Isn't that, that's what the Irish call the airing cupboard, isn't it? Yes, but you wouldn't put |
| 0:51.7 | your juices in there, would you? Probably not. Unless you wanted to ferment them in double quick time. Oh, okay, so I think it is it referring to the fact it's unpasteurised? Oh. Because it says locking in nutrients and maximising flavour, no shortcuts, no heat, no additives. Just pure, delicious juice. No shortcuts, no heat, no additives. |
| 1:11.3 | We could use that as a slogan for the podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | Get that, put it on a t-shirt. |
| 1:16.2 | Right, welcome. It's Wednesday, and as I strode, |
| 1:18.8 | and I did stride this morning across London Bridge, |
| 1:20.9 | it was such a beautiful morning. |
| 1:22.5 | Oh, Jane, it's just phenomenal. |
| 1:24.6 | It's the kind of day where if you were at school and you had access to some outside |
| 1:30.2 | facilities, you would want your teacher to say, let's take the class outside. Do you remember that? |
| 1:35.9 | I do remember that, yeah. It's the most exciting thing, was it? Because it basically meant that you |
| 1:39.8 | weren't going to do any work. Well, because you get distracted by a worm or something like that. Yeah. Bloody lovely. Yeah. Fantastic. Now look, I just want to bring some insight because we both know |
| 1:49.7 | somebody who was at the Oscars. We share an operative with somebody who was very important at the Oscars. |
| 1:56.7 | That's right. And... I don't like describing it as an opera. No, well, she won't mind.'t mind. Because I don't know anyone who had ever been to the Oscars before, |
| 2:05.0 | and this individual was going. |
| 2:08.0 | And I just thought, well, I wonder if she'd tell us just a bit about it. |
| 2:11.7 | So anyway, she's been back in touch. |
| 2:14.6 | This is all anonymous, but she was indeed at the Oscars. |
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