Book Club - Just Kids
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We've made it to our tenth book club edition! This one is what we call a mixed bag, so pop the prosecco and sit back... Jane and Fi discuss 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith. Plus, the wonderful Laura Hackett, deputy literary editor of The Times and Sunday Times, joins them to share her thoughts and bring a touch of class.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to podcast book club number, we don't know. |
| 0:12.4 | Ten, I think. |
| 0:13.2 | And it doesn't really matter. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome aboard if you're joining us at this late departure stage or have you been with us right from the beginning. |
| 0:21.2 | We've got exciting times today, Jane, haven't we? |
| 0:23.8 | Because we've actually got an in-studio guest, a woman of a very discerning literary palette. |
| 0:32.0 | Who've we got? |
| 0:33.1 | Well, we've actually, we've gone to the trouble of getting a brain, which is brilliant, |
| 0:36.6 | and I'm incredible, we're both indebted to the formidable Laura Hackett. Laura, welcome. Honestly, |
| 0:42.4 | thank you for giving up some time for this. We appreciate it. What are your credentials exactly? |
| 0:47.1 | I am the deputy literary editor of the Times and Sunday Times. Those are probably the extent of my credentials. Do you need a full sort of academic CV? Well, people will have heard the lilt in your voice. You're from Northern Ireland. I am. I'm not sure how much that qualifies me for this particular book. But yes, that's true. I am, yes. Okay. And your favourite writer as a child? Favorite writer as a child? Beatrix Potter. Beatrix Potter. Okay. And your favourite writer as a child? Favorite writer as a child? |
| 1:12.5 | Just want to place you. Beatrix Potter. |
| 1:13.7 | Beatrix Potter. Okay. And Laura comes on our afternoon show, the live show, and talks about books on Monday. |
| 1:21.7 | And we're always so impressed with your choices and just the sheer amount of books that you've read for someone so young. |
| 1:28.6 | So you're about half our age, aren't you? Well, I do kind of have to do it. Not that I wouldn't want to, but it is very much |
| 1:36.6 | part and parcel of the job. But you are a very well-read young woman. Well, thank you. So your take on |
| 1:42.5 | this book is going to be fascinating because I think for an |
| 1:45.4 | awful lot of our readers, we are of a certain age. So Patty Smith has been in our ether. And I think |
| 1:53.7 | even though she has been in our ether, a lot of people have been surprised by the book. So we will, |
| 1:59.9 | we will come to your thoughts about, you know, |
| 2:02.1 | pairing that person with what there is on the page. |
| 2:06.1 | But just as a bookbook, did you enjoy reading it? |
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