Hot under the collar over some ribbed cranberry sauce (with Chris McCausland)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It’s the final official podcast episode of the year! Merry Christmas from all the Off Air team. Pour yourself a glass of fizz and settle in as Fi chats Swiss hot tubs, ribbed cranberry sauce, and a truly uncomfortable Ken Follett colander.
Plus, comedian Chris McCausland discusses his documentary ‘Seeing into the Future’, about the future of technology and what it might hold for him personally.
Chris' book is called 'Keep Laughing': https://www.waterstones.com/book/keep-laughing/chris-mccausland/9780241777367
Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
You can listen to our 'I'm in the cupboard on Christmas' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1awQioX5y4fxhTAK8ZPhwQ
If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio
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Podcast Producers: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Testing, testing, |
| 0:09.1 | 1, 2, 3, 4, testing, testing. |
| 0:11.3 | I think we're tested. |
| 0:12.8 | Yes, that's what you are, yes. |
| 0:14.0 | In many ways. |
| 0:15.2 | Yes, we've been tested. |
| 0:17.4 | We've been tested. |
| 0:18.7 | And we're coming to the end of our Christmas run. |
| 0:23.0 | So this is the last podcast before Christmas. |
| 0:25.6 | And we will end the podcast by sending you all Merry Christmas greetings and stuff like that. |
| 0:31.3 | We've got normal business to get through before the happy festive Santa sign off. |
| 0:37.5 | Just in parish notices, I left my reading glasses at St. Bride's Church on Fleet Street |
| 0:43.2 | last night. |
| 0:44.4 | I know that the Reverend Alison Joyce is a listener to this podcast. |
| 0:48.4 | If we could arrange a way of getting them back to me, that would be great. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm going to give you a call later later please don't be too spooked by it |
| 0:55.7 | st bride's church in fleet street is the journalist church and it's really really beautiful and if |
| 1:01.9 | you're ever in london and you've got a spare half an hour you find yourself in that neck of the woods |
| 1:05.9 | it's worth popping in if it's open it has an an amazing atmosphere. It's acoustically, it just really |
| 1:14.5 | works. It's neither too big or too small. And in terms of the work that it does, it celebrates and |
| 1:20.6 | commemorates all of the lives of journalists. And at the moment, there are just far too many |
| 1:25.4 | journalists around the world who can't do their job. |
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