Down to a fiver for the apocalypse! (with David Olusoga)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Whether you're storming down the road like Fi or falling off the kerb like Jane, we hope you'll be safely seated for this episode. Jane and Fi chat about the dangers of pouffes, normal-sized partners, family vaults, and Zimmer frame world records.
Plus, historian David Olusoga discusses his current tour 'History's Missing Chapters' and appearing on The Celebrity Traitors.
We've announced our next book club pick! 'Just Kids' is by Patti Smith.
You can listen to the playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3qIjhtS9sprg864IXC96he?si=uOzz4UYZRc2nFOP8FV_1jg&pi=BGoacntaS_uki.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Hold your hands next time we're walking. |
| 0:02.5 | You'll take me down with you. |
| 0:03.8 | Well, unfortunately, the speed at which you walk is not something available to me. |
| 0:09.0 | I'll tell you what, I hope I live long enough to see you on a Zimmer |
| 0:11.5 | breaking the world Zimmer frame record. |
| 0:28.2 | I'm going... Can I just say this because I completely forgot to the other day and then I think I made a bit of a hash of doing it anyway. |
| 0:31.0 | We're launching our I've got the house to myself, Spotify playlist, challenge. |
| 0:36.1 | But this time round, because Rosie did find that she had to dedicate a whole month of her working |
| 0:41.3 | life to getting the last one done. |
| 0:44.0 | It's first ten entries only. |
| 0:45.9 | Candy Staten would be my choice, young hearts from free. |
| 0:48.2 | Your own hearts are unfree. |
| 0:49.2 | So you've got the house to yourself, the kids are out, your husband, partner, girlfriend or whatever |
| 0:55.0 | has gone, the pets are somewhere else being looked after. |
| 0:58.5 | You just got, you want to put on a playlist |
| 1:01.6 | that just goes, voomf me baby. |
| 1:05.0 | What's yours? |
| 1:06.9 | Weirdly, because I don't particularly like the place, |
| 1:09.1 | Odyssey and Native New Yorker. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm a native New Yorker. |
| 1:12.8 | It's a great one. |
| 1:15.1 | You can't actually replace New York with Slough, unfortunately, can you? |
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