I got a pocket, got a pocketful of Anusol (with Dame Maggie Aderin)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Jane has yet again come to work with a smile on her face (the office heating was on and the canteen was stocked with Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut). Fi’s still off, so Eve props Jane up - they chat Barbara Pym, aliens, bowling with piles, and book translations.
Plus, space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock discusses her memoir 'Starchild'.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | I can't go as high as you. |
| 0:10.6 | No, actually, no, I haven't got a particularly low voice, but, you know, you are much blessed in that department, as we know. |
| 0:17.9 | Oh, I think I got about on recording. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome. Welcome. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome to Wednesday's podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | Yes, Eve's now, as you can tell, fully recovered from her trip to Berlin. |
| 0:29.1 | Right. |
| 0:30.1 | Now, actually, we've got a question for you here. |
| 0:32.7 | We should just say, Fee is off for half half term but Eve is womanfully |
| 0:38.8 | filling in in a way |
| 0:41.8 | I'm very much here |
| 0:43.6 | and that's the only requirement |
| 0:46.1 | to do this podcast |
| 0:47.5 | yeah thank you I think they'll find |
| 0:49.3 | there's a little bit more to it |
| 0:50.4 | Madeline it joins us |
| 0:53.4 | Madeline is way up in snowy North North Germany. I bet it's lovely. Actually, my eldest child is on business abroad at the moment and she's in Sweden and she told me it was minus nine Eve. That is cold, isn't it? That is cold, that's really cold. It's properly cold. And she sent me a picture of a branch of a shop I'd never heard of before called IKEA. She's really seeing all the sights. She's seeing everything. She had one of |
| 1:17.2 | those lovely hotel breakfast, but I did feel, obviously I got an image of it because this is 2026, |
| 1:23.0 | and that's what you do, you send your mom a picture of your breakfast. She had a plate which |
| 1:26.7 | encompassed just about |
| 1:27.6 | everything including smoked salmon and bait beans on the same plate now how do you feel about that |
| 1:34.2 | i wasn't sure i'm into it i'm kind of into also beans were touching the salmon she's making the |
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