Ill at ease at a Club 18-30 foam party (with Stig Abell)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever successfully taken the smell out of wool? Then this is the podcast for you! Jane and Fi chat Club 18–30, second-hand bed linen, extremely experimental theatre, and what happens when your fingertips fade.
Plus, Times Radio presenter and crime-author Stig Abell discusses his latest book ‘A Twist in the River’.
You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi
Our new playlist 'Coiled Spring' is up and running: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tmoCpbp42ae7R1UY8ofza
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.
If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radioFollow us on Instagram! @janeandfi
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Wednesday's edition of Offair with Jane and Fee, just an alert that we've just recorded the book club, so that will come your way, will come your way on Friday as an additional Easter weekend treat. |
| 0:20.5 | And thank you for participating so much in Book Club. |
| 0:24.3 | So we had more emails about a town like Alice by Neville Schultz |
| 0:27.9 | than any of the other books that we've read so far. |
| 0:30.8 | I think are we on to book about 11, 10, 9, 8? |
| 0:35.5 | Pick a number and circle it. |
| 0:37.4 | Because there was actually loads and loads to talk about. And I did enjoy reading it, Jane, knowing that I'd be able to talk about it and that is the joy of book club. Yeah, it really is. You didn't have to keep it all in just to yourself. No. So get your thinking caps on and come up, please please with another book that will be equally provocative |
| 0:54.8 | in a couple of months time. Our USP4 book club is a book that has either gone off the radar |
| 1:02.8 | or you think wasn't on the radar enough. But what we don't really want to do is read stuff |
| 1:09.7 | that is right at the top of the bestseller lists |
| 1:12.4 | or is just won a prize or is on its first marvellous outing across the literary steeplechase. |
| 1:19.6 | So it just has to be something a little bit, oh God, I'd kind of forgotten about that or, oh, I missed that, or, oh, I've never heard of that. |
| 1:26.7 | Definitely. |
| 1:48.8 | You can do it because you've been brilliant at suggesting books in the past. So just ping your suggestions in. Jane and Fee at times. dot radio and our thanks to Laura Hackett, Deputy, no, she's got a new title because she tells us all about it. Deputy literary editor, brackets. Are there any brackets? I can't remember. Deputy literary and fiction editor of the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 1:49.1 | Right. |
| 1:51.0 | And she's really interesting because she's very young. |
| 1:54.4 | And so her perspective on Neville Schutt, well, she'd never heard of Neville Schuett. |
| 1:56.5 | Anyway, hear it. |
| 2:00.9 | That's Friday's bonus book club edition of Offair with Jane Fee. |
| 2:03.8 | You didn't notice, but while we were recording that upstairs in the pretty botch studios of Talk Sport, |
| 2:07.7 | the TV monitor in that studio was showing this morning with Dermott and Alison, |
| 2:13.1 | and amongst their topics came emblazoned across the screen. |
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