Bank holiday means sun-drenched Tummy Time
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
If you were at university or school with Jane and Fi, come forth! We want to hear all about it.
Jane’s sourced her emergency shorts, which can only mean one thing: there’s a heatwave coming. Jane and Fi chat God’s plan, the miracle of Peckham, sturdy bras, the side effects of Viagra, troublesome house rabbits, and splashback tiles.
Plus, former alt-right political commentator and YouTuber Lauren Southern discusses abandoning the manosphere and the dangers of the internet. Lauren’s memoir is called 'This Is Not Real Life'.
Jane and Fi are signing off for a long bank holiday of Tummy Time. They’ll reconvene on Tuesday.
Our next book club pick will be a collection of short stories! 'Interpreter of Maladies' is by Jhumpa Lahiri.
You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndF
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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| 0:00.0 | We don't want to start slugging someone off, do we? |
| 0:10.4 | Well, we just were. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome, anyway. |
| 0:14.0 | It's off-air with Jane and Fee. |
| 0:16.4 | I don't know, can you notice a difference in the sound quality today? |
| 0:18.9 | What do you think? |
| 0:19.4 | This is intriguing, isn't it? |
| 0:20.9 | Because we are in the visualization studio, but you can't see us. |
| 0:25.4 | No. |
| 0:25.8 | We can see each other. |
| 0:27.0 | But we are here. |
| 0:28.1 | But you won't be able to see us. |
| 0:30.2 | So I don't know whether just being in a visualization studio with the possibility of visualization, |
| 0:35.9 | a word that I hadn't ever really said before 20, 24, |
| 0:40.0 | and now it would be in my top 10 most used words. |
| 0:45.0 | I don't know whether it will make any difference |
| 0:47.9 | to just have this kind of possibility upon us. |
| 0:51.4 | What do you think? |
| 0:52.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm just enjoying the image of our fire in the background still burning away, which in these troubled times is not. It's almost like a, it says a lot about the state of the world, doesn't it? The constantly burning fire. The constantly ever burning fire. Yeah. Yeah. And our weather forecast. Yes. Our weather forecast the next couple of days in the UK is really, really hot. And we had an interview yesterday, didn't we, about the consequences of Britain heating up. And it really, we just got to say, it's so unusual to get temperatures over 30 Celsius in Britain in May. And it's effectively sort of mid-ish May, isn't it? |
| 1:29.8 | This isn't normal? |
| 1:31.0 | It's not normal and it will become normal, |
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