It's ALL about Disco Dollies, Romford (with David Szalay)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Your travel correspondents, Jane and Fi, bring you this edition of the podcast. They’ve ridden the trains to work - they're just like us! They ask: is kitchen towel actually relevant? Do companies hear you when they put you on hold? Will moving pavements ever become a thing? 'What have you got for lunch?'
Plus, author David Szalay discusses his book Flesh, winner of the Booker Prize.
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.
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Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | I was coming into work today on the tube. |
| 0:10.0 | Woman of the people, we both take the tube, don't we? |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, we do. |
| 0:15.0 | Yep. |
| 0:16.0 | It always makes me laugh when there's a celebrity on a bus coming back for an award ceremony. Always post about it, don't they? Oh, yes, they let it be know. People of the people. Speaking of which, I forgot to mention, I saw, and I think it's okay to say, I saw Tracy Thorn on the underground the other day. I can't do. Well, you can't actually, it's quite difficult to hum and everything, but the opener isn't it well um a thingy do love her voice really love her voice anyway she was on the |
| 0:43.8 | northern line um she is everything but the girl yes oh yeah yeah and i nearly spoke to her |
| 0:48.8 | but then i just thought no she doesn't't know. And we've interviewed her. |
| 0:55.9 | Yes, I don't. |
| 0:57.4 | Did we do it in person, though? |
| 1:01.6 | I forget with those lockdown ones who was behind a Zoom. |
| 1:02.8 | We did it, IRL. |
| 1:03.5 | Did we? |
| 1:06.5 | In the funny little cafe in the broadcasting house? |
| 1:07.5 | No, the Daleks. |
| 1:08.1 | That's it. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, the Daleks. |
| 1:11.3 | And the strictly little. Yeah. it. Yeah, the Daleks. And the strictly little boy. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.0 | And that little shop in the BBC, I think they could do with a bit more merch, actually. |
| 1:18.9 | Don't give them ideas. And slightly funnier merch, because it was all pretty statutory stuff. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:24.2 | Anyway, she is one of my musical heroines. |
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