He didn't realise he was talking to a gobsh*te! (with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jane and Fi are reunited after the bank holiday, and they've concluded it was a bit hot! We hope you had a good one... Jane and Fi cover losing confidence in driving as you age, whether we’ve gone too far with the number of condiments available today, how cute really chunky babies are, and the pleasure of lending libraries.
Plus, cook and writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall discusses his new cookbook ‘High Fibre Heroes’.
Our next book club pick will be a collection of short stories! 'Interpreter of Maladies' is by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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| 0:00.0 | I just accused myself of being pompous. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Tuesday's edition of Offair with Jane and Fee. |
| 0:14.6 | Let's check in with Fee and see if she had a good bank holiday weekend. |
| 0:17.9 | Did you have a good bank holiday weekend, Fee? |
| 0:19.8 | It's a very kind of you to ask. I hope |
| 0:21.3 | this finds you well. We were just talking about that as the opening to emails. I use it, you use it, |
| 0:27.8 | Eve's used it. None of us like ourselves for using it. I genuinely can't remember what we used to do. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. No, but you want to do. Not an No. Because let's say the email is the letter. |
| 0:38.8 | So in a letter, let's say you were writing to an old friend or an aunt, so not a formal letter, you would have gone, dear Patricia. |
| 0:49.9 | I hope you're well. |
| 0:50.9 | I hope you're well. |
| 0:51.9 | I think. |
| 0:52.6 | I don't know whether we would actually. |
| 2:18.9 | Anyway, we'll take thoughts on this subject. I had a lovely bank holiday weekend. It was just the right level of... We had one day of blooming sunshine, didn't we, on the Friday? Where you did think, oh, it's a little hot. Yes, it was too much. Too much. A little hot by three o'clock. And then a suitable amount of damp by the end of it. And I think I declare myself to be 90% slightly soggy barbecue and picky bits. Yeah, I think, I think, refreshingly, by bank holiday Monday afternoon. There was a real hint of winter, which is exactly what I wanted to feel. I had to put my heating back off for an hour yesterday evening. I put it on to dry some smalls. Yeah, it was. It was a little bit chilly, Willie. I love the month of May because if you're lucky enough to have your bank holidays off. And actually, for you and I, that's probably been a very long time coming. It's only in this decade of my life I've felt brave enough to say, I don't want to work a bank holiday, thank you very much. Because usually the time-honoured fashion is that radio just continues as if we're the fourth emergency service. And you can't possibly live without us. It is. You know what they say, though, marry in May and rue the day. Do they? Yes. Marry in May and divorce in June. That'll be very quick. When did you get divorced? I can't remember. But I got married in September. That doesn't help. Is there a season that suits divorce more than most do let us know |
| 2:19.8 | oh dear |
| 2:20.9 | I had a weekend with |
| 2:22.2 | I would say bits of everything |
| 2:23.7 | including I just want to say |
| 2:25.0 | I was coming back from Liverpool |
| 2:26.8 | on Saturday night |
| 2:27.9 | and I'll be honest with you Fee |
| 2:29.3 | it was a lovely quiet train |
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