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Off Air with Jane & Fi

Fnarr fnarr at the silver screening... (with Emma B)

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

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

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Jane and Fi are feeling nostalgic today and they’re reminiscing about simpler times: when the landline phone knew its place, the Mini Cooper stayed in its lane, and washing your hair and body was a straight forward with Matey...


Plus, Virgin Radio’s Emma B discusses her new podcast 'I Can Run A Marathon'. 


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

If you could take the whole of January off, and I know that we're in February, everybody, I know. Where would you go?

0:15.8

I'd go to Margate like Madonna.

0:18.5

To Margate? She quite clearly spent the whole of January. January. Okay. Did you, I mean, she did go to Margate, didn't she? Well, she did, because she was photographed, wasn't she, in the kind of central little square in the old town looking fabulously Madonna-esque? I've never been, have you? Yes. And? It's got beautiful sands. It's got amazing. Oh, you had a summer

0:39.4

holiday? Yeah, we did a lockdown holiday in Margate. Yeah. And we had a great time. We made the most of it.

0:46.3

And we went to... Is this a slightly rose-tinted spectacles? No, I think lots of people move to Margate

0:52.3

and find it invigorating people who've grown up and lived there all their lives, have stayed there.

0:57.6

You know, there's obviously something to be said for it.

0:59.8

It's not, I wouldn't want to, why wouldn't I want to live there myself?

1:03.4

I find there's something for me a little bit, I'm not sure that I would make it through the winters in a seaside summer resort, if you know what I mean.

1:14.8

I do know what you mean.

1:15.7

Because it's, I think for me, the kind of everybody's left feeling would get to me.

1:23.8

I like the paciness of London. It's never not busy.

1:27.3

Do you know what to mean?

1:28.2

That's certainly true. I'd like to hear from people who live in seaside resorts about how they

1:33.6

navigate exactly that. Yes. November and onwards until mid-April in, let's be honest, Britain does have

1:42.5

some desolate, no, I I mean through no fault of their own

1:47.0

quite deprived former seaside resorts

1:49.9

but also just places that

1:52.0

are neither of those two things but are just a little quiet

1:55.0

when it's off-season

1:57.0

and yeah and a trifle challenging

2:00.4

sometimes stiff breezes but i bet if you like it it's it's

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