Boosting bosoms from the comfort of your armchair
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The sheltered housing for the more commercially viable is under construction, and we expect it to open its doors to Jane and Fi soon… While they wait, they discuss Gremlins, more funeral songs, brine ideas, and blancmange.
Plus, novelist and historian Mary Chamberlain discusses her book 'Fenwomen', a fascinating insight into 20th-century rural life, 50 years on from its first publication.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, it can't just be that some families have a kind of mating season. That's revolting. |
| 0:04.0 | What? Oh, don't go round to the Dawson's. |
| 0:09.0 | They're mating. She's on heat. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm a non-alcoholic beer of an evening. |
| 0:26.7 | Wooop, whoop, sound the fun claxon. |
| 0:30.9 | Then I will be up in the night. |
| 0:33.1 | It's just a fact, isn't it? |
| 0:35.8 | Sometimes I find myself sitting on my sofa with my non-alcoholic beer |
| 0:39.8 | and my nicotine replacement therapy lozange thinking, |
| 0:43.5 | gosh, I haven't quite got over my 20s. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm just still doing it, but I've just taken out all of the elements of harm. |
| 0:51.7 | But that's, yeah, yeah, that's one way of doing is, isn't it? |
| 0:54.9 | No alcohol beer, I had one last night, actually. It has, it has improved. |
| 0:58.7 | Oh, it's wonderful. They used to be a very funny, after-taste, not so much these days. |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah. And they just need to be able to do the same thing with wine, don't they? Because they've |
| 1:07.6 | definitely not managed to master that yet. I think maybe when we are in the Rupert Murdoch sponsored... |
| 1:15.6 | What are we calling it? |
| 1:17.3 | The sheltered housing for the more commercially viable, then I will... |
| 1:21.6 | The surprisingly commercial viable in later life. |
| 1:25.2 | I'll put the alcohol back in the beer and I couldn't have another fag. |
| 1:29.8 | Could you have another fag? |
| 1:31.2 | No, well I've had that one. |
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