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Off Air with Jane & Fi

Falling down a Mark Carney thirst-trap rabbit hole

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

Fi Glover, Women, Times Radio, News, Chat, Conversation, Jane Garvey, Society & Culture, Relationships, Community, Entertainment, Entertainment News, The Times

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jane’s still off, so it’s an Off Air Fi and Eve special... They’re ricocheting between knick-knacks for dickheads’ business ventures, enlightenment in Croydon, slinkies, stiff-guy yoga, and fanny gallops.


No guest today due to technical issues so enjoy lots of chat.


Our next book club pick is 'A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute.


Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.


You can listen to our 'I'm in the cupboard on Christmas' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1awQioX5y4fxhTAK8ZPhwQ


If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio


Follow us on Instagram! @janeandfi


Podcast Producers: Eve Salusbury

Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler


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0:00.0

Right, don't be silly. Greetings everybody. Welcome to Tuesday. This is an offer with Eve and Fee special. Hello. Hello. Okay. Right. Let's go again from the top. Once more with feeling, this is an off-air, even fee special.

0:26.3

Hiya. That's absolutely brilliant. Brilliant. You've got the showbiz emphasis. Oh goodness me. I very much enjoyed Robbie Millen's company yesterday. He's a naughty, naughty, naughty sausage that one. So you know how some people, Eve, they just have an air of mischief about them, does they? That was a bit of an edit job.

0:49.8

So I think you've probably done a very, very good job. But I always wonder whether there's a very, very different solemn side to people

0:58.5

who have that mischief dancing around their eyes.

1:03.1

And maybe it just happens with Robbie when we get to know him a little bit more.

1:08.8

But he's endlessly entertaining.

1:10.2

And just for your information, dear podcast listeners,

1:14.1

he comes on the live show on Mondays to do exactly that kind of schick about books.

1:19.2

And Jane and I are a little bit fearful.

1:21.5

Yeah, putting him live on air.

1:23.3

He's just over the last couple of months,

1:26.2

he's said some extraordinary things live on her

1:28.5

that thankfully haven't been picked up by Offcom yet.

1:31.3

It feels surprising because he's so literary.

1:34.0

He's very literary.

1:34.7

So he must read some quite solemn, hefty books with very serious themes.

1:40.1

It does not infect or impede on his every day.

1:42.6

I think it bounces off him.

1:44.0

But there'll be a place, there'll be a calm, quiet and perhaps rather dark place that he's also got in the soul. Everybody has one. Serious in his reading look. Yeah, maybe, maybe. I really enjoyed your interview with David Bediel, says Liz, and I will definitely watch his show. I would love to have a chat.

2:01.6

No, that's wrong.

2:17.2

I'd love to have a cat. A chat of us a cat. Oh dear. I have left my special glasses. They're still in the vestry at St. Bride's Church. Oh, you still haven't gone to get them? I haven't gone to get them. Do you want to do a call out to maybe just have them post it? No, I keep meaning to Because it would actually be a really lovely walk

2:20.0

Through that part of the city to St Brides, but the weather at the moment in London. Oh, you'll be waiting until spring at this rate? Yeah, it's just horrible, but I'm leaving them in the vestry and convincing myself that my eyes are fine, and I don't need them, but I do. Back to Liz, I'd love to have a cat. But what holds me back is how do you spot a kitten that will be a great character cat, Liz? It's a really good question. You mentioned the dog cat debate, but with a dog you can largely predict temperament, and as you say, they do all seem to genuinely love their owners. So my question is, are there in your

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