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Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Fi’s brought a frittata in and Jane’s fishcakes haven’t cut the mustard. We hope you’re enjoying a balanced meal wherever you are… Jane and Fi also cover hospital flowers, the randomness of bank holidays, and the sexual antics of the muntjac.
Plus, writer Claire Lynch discusses her prize-winning book 'A Family Matter', about lesbian mothers who lost custody of their children during divorce cases in the 1980s.
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| 0:00.0 | Right, we've got an awful lot to get through today. |
| 0:11.4 | I've just written down bobbling with Eve, lest we forget, |
| 0:15.0 | because we've got to catch up with that jumper, Joan. |
| 0:17.1 | D-bobbling. |
| 0:18.6 | It's a scientific question, really. |
| 0:24.2 | What causes bobbling on certain types of Jersey Eve? |
| 0:31.6 | Well, so I don't know, but I would love to find out, now that I've debobled with a Phillips debobbler, |
| 0:34.4 | semi-effective, I'd give a... Who's Phillips? |
| 0:36.1 | Oh, you don't know him? |
| 0:38.5 | Oh, I think he goes to another school, does he? Okay. I thought you it a... Who's Philip? Oh, you don't know him. Oh, I didn't. You go to another school, does he? |
| 0:39.4 | Okay. |
| 0:41.7 | I thought you meant the electrical manufacturer. |
| 0:42.4 | I did, yeah. Oh, I see. |
| 0:46.1 | I was thinking you must be familiar with Philip. |
| 0:50.3 | I was thinking, God, you know someone called Philip. |
| 0:52.5 | It's quite an old-fashioned name. |
| 0:53.5 | It was a battery-powered Phillips debobbler. Wow. I'd give it a six out of ten. I didn't think it was that effective. So then I wanted tips on how to fully debobble and then how to prevent re-bobbling. Yeah, I think the re-bobbling is inevitable, but I don't know why either. So we'll throw it open because we've had lots of |
| 1:11.0 | sensible answers to our questions about flowers in hospitals. So this one can't, it won't be |
| 1:16.1 | able to get past our incredible informed hive mind. So let us know what's causing it. Presumably |
| 1:22.9 | when you wash it, it's just little fibres that rub up against other little fibres. Well, I don't know. |
| 1:28.7 | And get a little bit hardened. You've got to wash your jumper, so... Well, you don't have to. |
| 1:34.0 | Do I have to hand wash it? Well, I always advise hand washing. I do, I'm afraid. |
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