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Off Air with Jane & Fi

I never claimed to be consistent!

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

Fi Glover, Women, Times Radio, News, Chat, Conversation, Jane Garvey, Society & Culture, Relationships, Community, Entertainment, Entertainment News, The Times

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Jane and Fi are reunited, but they’re in new, cosier surroundings… They cover milk-bottle glasses, moving schools, Wuthering Heights, three-legged cats, children in restaurants, and who sat on the lesbians.


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


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

You join us actually. Fee's mid-a-a-a-a-d anecdote, so plow on with it.

0:11.9

Well, no, only because we're doing something a little bit different today, aren't we, which you're going to explain in a second.

0:16.5

Oh, God. Why do I have to explain it?

0:17.8

Because sometimes you have to take on the onerous duties that come with the privilege of having been born four years before me.

0:26.9

That one.

0:27.5

You've got more epaulets on your shoulder than I have.

0:31.0

Is that the right thing?

0:31.9

It probably is.

0:32.4

Carry on with the story.

0:33.2

Okay.

0:33.7

Well, we're doing something different which means that I can see how I look today, which I tend to avoid at all costs these days. And I can see that my glasses are actually, they're now milk bottle thick. That's what we used to call them at school, the cruelty of the playground. And a friend of mine, I bumped into him when I was walking the dog the other day, and I had my jacket pulled right up. So it was very, very windy and horribly cold.

0:55.1

And my hat pulled all the way down.

0:56.8

And he said, you are mostly glasses now.

0:59.7

Have you thought about having a new lens put in?

1:03.6

And I thought, well, and I said, okay, you have to have fortune to have that super slim thing.

1:08.1

And he said, no, a new lens in your eye.

1:13.5

And he's had new lenses put on his eyes, Jay. Well, how much did that sit in back? Well, he's had it done on the NHS.

1:19.1

Oh, I see. Well, that's a different matter. Yes. And I didn't want to ask why. No.

1:23.7

But I thought, would that be something that I would consider in order to get rid of it?

1:28.2

And he said it's brilliant because he's not mostly face furniture now.

1:32.0

He's quite a blunt man.

1:34.0

Sounds lovely.

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