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Off Air with Jane & Fi

Cotswolds Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the podcast, where the motto of the day is: “It’s not bitching, it’s high comedy.” Jane and Fi cover the rise of fidgeting, unbelievably engaging gut biomes, suspicious youths, competence porn, jigsaw frustration, and the Škoda fraternity.


Plus, journalist and author Natalie Livingstone discusses her latest book 'The Nuremberg Women'.


You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi


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

Right, well, on quite a tight time table now.

0:11.0

We've got to finish by 10 past 12.

0:13.0

It's now 1134.

0:14.8

We should do it.

0:15.5

We should do it, yeah.

0:17.7

Right, we're here now.

0:19.5

And my journey home last night, because I know you're dying to ask, there's a tube strike in London.

0:25.7

How was your journey home last night, Jane? Great, because I took advice and got a jubilee line to Green Park, which is the station, it's very near Piccadilly. No.

0:39.3

It looks out over St James's Park. That's it. And you can see the corner of Buckingham Palace. That's right, you can. And it's near the Ritz. So I'm very familiar with it. I mean, it's very much my neck of the woods. Anyway, then I got a bus. Lovely. That would be a lovely bus journey. You might have to explain that to people who aren't familiar with the city

0:54.4

layout, but that would presumably take you all the way down Knightsbridge and then onwards

1:00.4

from Knightsbridge into the wilderness. Through Kensington. Of West London.

1:05.1

You're so wrong. It's right. Through the wilderness of Kensington. The albert memorial the albert hall um and all that but

1:14.7

you know what i'll be honest it was hot i was on the top deck right at the front so it was great

1:18.8

so i could pretend to be the driver for a bit and that's good and it still passes the time brilliantly

1:22.3

plus i got some sweets to occupy myself i was on that bus 90 minutes. That is quite long. Would it not have been quicker

1:28.7

to get off and walk? Yes, it probably would. Yeah. Once you've got a decent seat on the bus,

1:33.0

though, I never get off and walk. You're not going to shift from the front at the top, are you?

1:36.2

Well, my favourite seat is the one, these are Rootmaster buses. It's probably about six down on the left

1:43.6

when you come up the stairs

1:44.7

because it's got the air conditioning box under the seat in front

1:48.6

which if you've got short legs like having a footrest

1:50.7

so you can put your little on the seat around that's lovely

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