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Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
King and Queen Tut return today to discuss the big philosophical questions: banning flavoured hot cross buns, diplomatic slappers, and misleadingly dirty lyrics.
Plus, Jane speaks to Labour MP Naz Shah about her memoir, Honoured.
Our next book club pick is 'A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute.
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
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Podcast Producers: Hannah Quinn and Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | I've got stuck in my head. |
| 0:10.0 | The best things in life are free. |
| 0:12.7 | Do do do do do do do. |
| 0:14.9 | Why? |
| 0:16.0 | Jane, why? |
| 0:16.9 | And also, is that true? |
| 0:18.6 | No. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm just trying to think it. |
| 0:25.0 | It's a big philosophical question, isn't it? |
| 0:26.9 | But no. |
| 0:27.5 | I mean, I think we all know that it's just bollocks. |
| 0:31.0 | Anyway, thank you all for your contact with us over the last couple of days. |
| 0:35.7 | In fact, in fact, we've just brilliant emails generally over the last couple of weeks. And I do say this often, but I mean it. I wish we could read them all out. And some of them are really long, and we really appreciate the effort you've gone to. We really do. Hugely. And also, please do rest assured we do read every single one of them and also we do keep some back so if you wrote |
| 0:55.6 | you know even kind of two weeks ago or a week ago i've got a plastic folder you might be in it |
| 1:01.3 | and when when we don't just jabber on too much we do always hope to be able to squeeze in |
| 1:08.4 | stuff that we haven't squeezed in before yeah well absolutely every word you say is word you say is true. And you've got a, your cold has now become |
| 1:13.9 | really quite unpleasant, hasn't it? But you're wrestling with it and you're doing brilliantly well. I think, well, I think you're winning at the moment. Well, I don't think, okay, here's a question for you, Jane. I don't think that you can, let's a cold, knock you out of work |
| 1:25.6 | because of a pre-lancer. |
| 1:27.2 | But quite often, when we come to work, |
| 1:30.1 | if somebody has got a... Lesser Cold, knock you out of work. Because of pre-reed answer. But quite often, when we come to work, |
| 1:30.1 | if somebody has got a heaving, heaving cold |
| 1:33.1 | that is being sent around the office |
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