Hearing from the Manchego again in warrior pose (with Derek Jacobi and Richard Clifford)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Happy Hump Day! It’s all going on: Fi’s been taken over by a spirit, and we’re about 50 miles outside Bromley… Jane’s added even more items to her ever-growing list of dislikes… They also chat about lying-in hospitals, burping yoga, mallen streaks, and Frank Bough. Namaste!
Plus, Sir Derek Jacobi reflects on his career and discusses his tour with his husband Richard Clifford.
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| 0:00.0 | Could there be a link between not drinking alcohol? |
| 0:12.0 | This is the new improved eve, everybody, doing dry January. |
| 0:19.0 | Well, this is sober Eve. I'm doing dry January. Yeah, well, this is sober Eve. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm doing dry January too. Oh, are you? Okay. |
| 0:25.7 | And I'm just loving it. |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.8 | Yeah, I mean, it's really, it's so silly to say I'm loving, not putting a poison into my bloodstream on a pretty regular basis on a |
| 0:40.0 | Thursday Friday and Saturday evening. But that's what we're talking about, isn't it? Yeah, it's weird. |
| 0:47.9 | I do feel lighter and brighter. Yeah, and you do, there's no doubt your sleep. Everybody's sleep is |
| 0:52.4 | improved, isn't it? Yeah. And actually, I haven't needed my alarm clock for the last couple of days. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm just waking up with the birds. |
| 1:02.2 | Wonderful. |
| 1:02.8 | But it might be mating foxes, I don't know. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.5 | Well, I've got a friend 60th this weekend, so I won't be dry. |
| 1:10.2 | Well, that is the huge problem for them so there are many many |
| 1:13.1 | birthdays in January in our family and and I am just having to you know just chink with a lucky saint |
| 1:21.1 | I do love a lucky saint yeah I don't mind alcohol-free beers yeah and it's the most glorious beautiful |
| 1:26.6 | wonderful sunshiny crisp January day in London, |
| 1:30.4 | and that is because it's my son's birthday. |
| 1:32.7 | My son wouldn't listen to this in a million years, |
| 1:35.0 | but maybe literally in a million years, you will. |
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