Headbanging to The Three Humanities Degrees (with Lisa McGee)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
We know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats (particularly if you’re anything like Shaun Evans), but fear not, Fi brings you an Anusol update… Plus, there’s discussion about Jane on the drums, lengths of meetings, fat and happy pets, and the diabolical nature of the sheet cake.
Also, Lisa McGee, creator and writer of Derry Girls, discusses her new show ‘How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh no, I do. No, I do. Because it's not proper work a meeting. |
| 0:16.2 | Well, the meetings that we go to, you could boil them down, don't you think? |
| 0:22.7 | You could boil every meeting down to about... |
| 0:25.9 | There should be a maximum length of a meeting, shouldn't there? |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah. What do you think it would be? |
| 0:29.8 | 20 minutes. |
| 0:30.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.4 | I think that's a good length of a meeting. |
| 0:33.5 | What's that famous expression? I know I've mentioned it before. |
| 0:36.2 | Everything's been said, but not everyone has said it. |
| 0:38.6 | And everyone needs the chance to say it. |
| 0:40.2 | Exactly. |
| 0:42.7 | Anyway, right, I just want to draw everyone's attention. |
| 0:45.7 | It's Tuesday as we speak. |
| 0:48.2 | And there's a little bit in the Times Diary today. |
| 0:50.7 | I don't know about you, Fee, but this would be my idea of a tiny, a minor version of hell. |
| 0:56.3 | It was a Saturday night gig by a supergroup called Centrist Dad. |
| 1:02.3 | Oh, we know who's in Centrist Dad, don't we? |
| 1:05.3 | ITB's Robert Peston. Yeah. Radio 4's, John Wilson. Ed Balls. And Ed Balls. |
| 1:11.1 | And they're all in there in a man band. |
| 1:13.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.2 | Well, we could get it together, couldn't it? |
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