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Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Jane and Fi offer some relief from the nerve shredding news agenda with Jane's shameful anecdotes of horse radish, a deep dive into Harry Styles’ high-waisted trousers, and the latest on Fi’s ever-changing "Free the Nipple" manifesto.
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| 0:00.0 | On your marks, get set, go. |
| 0:09.3 | Good morning. |
| 0:10.2 | It is just about morning. |
| 0:11.9 | It is Monday, March the second, isn't it, 2026? |
| 0:17.1 | And, well, it was quite a nerve-shredding weekend in many ways, wasn't it? |
| 0:23.5 | I mean, it's not like we're not used to it now in some ways, but... |
| 0:26.5 | There's a sense that what happened over the weekend might be the start of something |
| 0:31.6 | that defines a completely different age. |
| 0:35.5 | It could be good, it could be terrible. The Middle East is definitely |
| 0:40.7 | febrile at the moment and I don't know about you. I had quite a lot of conversations with my |
| 0:46.5 | kids about whether or not this is something that will define their age too. And of course when |
| 0:52.6 | you're just, you're literally on the boat docking at the |
| 0:56.3 | bay of history, you can't tell, can you? No, I mean, you can't. And that's why it's always really |
| 1:01.0 | chilling when you read books set in 1937 and there's all sorts of stuff in the air. But only we, |
| 1:08.6 | as readers know, what's about to happen. |
| 1:13.3 | Some of them might suspect something's about to happen, |
| 1:16.6 | but lots of people were just carrying on living their lives and complete ignorance. |
| 1:20.5 | We do have listeners across the Middle East, and particularly in Dubai. |
| 1:23.2 | Most of our episodes do get through. |
| 1:25.9 | It's definitely a destination where some of them don't. |
| 1:27.6 | I hope this one does get through. |
| 1:30.2 | And we'll be really interested in hearing from you. |
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