Heartache? Have you tried tuna and Prosecco? (with Jon Batiste)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Fi joins today’s episode with a berry medley; do excuse her and her tart fruits. There are also some parish notices, discussion about the joys of parish notices, thoughts on robot carers, stacks of tuna, and Ryan Gosling’s hair in space.
Plus, Oscar- and Grammy-winning musician Jon Batiste discusses his upcoming KOKO London shows.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you mind if I have my berry medley? |
| 0:10.1 | Well, as soon as I saw that, I thought that's, that's just the, I just would never buy that for it. |
| 0:16.5 | No. What's in it? So I never usually buy, it's fruit in a pot. I don't buy either because I can handle fruit. |
| 0:26.0 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:26.5 | I don't need somebody else to have picked it and polished it and chopped it |
| 0:29.2 | and all of that stuff for me. |
| 0:30.4 | But I am slightly grinding towards the Easter break. |
| 0:35.7 | And I looked at that this morning and it called to me with all of its ungent colours of vitamin C. Beautiful colours to be fair. So I'm just going to plunk it there and if you'd like to help yourself as long as your fingers are clean. Are your fingers clean? I very much doubt it and you're absolutely fine because I can't think of anything I want less than soft fruit at this time in the morning or indeed at any time of the morning or any or any time of the day, or indeed night. Now, we've got, let's just be... Do you not |
| 0:57.9 | eat soft fruit at all? No, not if I can help it. Is that why you always had to crunch the pink lady apples? Yeah, I don't mind, but I haven't had a pink lady for getting on for over a year and a half. Is that because of your teeth? |
| 1:08.0 | Must be careful because I think we've advertised them. |
| 1:10.3 | I love pink ladies. |
| 1:12.2 | Can we just do before we get on? |
| 1:14.6 | Because... Is that because of your teeth? Must be careful because I think we've advertised them. I love pink ladies. |
| 1:12.2 | Can we just do before we get on? |
| 1:14.5 | Because we are... |
| 1:16.7 | Whoa. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah, it's a little... |
| 1:18.1 | God, that was a tart. |
| 1:19.5 | A tart. |
| 1:20.5 | Exactly. |
| 1:21.0 | Very tart. |
| 1:22.0 | I love the word tart for things that are simply too acidic. |
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