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Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Fi’s had a bumpy start to the morning in the form of a classic misplaced-phone palaver, but crisis averted… After that, Jane and Fi chat unsubtle Anusol product placement, the glis glis, confused supermarket chocolate, and latex-clad mother-in-laws.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another week. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. |
| 0:13.8 | Now, the feast had a minor drama, but it's not so minor when it happens, because your phone went missing. |
| 0:18.8 | It did. |
| 0:19.2 | And as it's happened to me, It's usually in the house somewhere. |
| 0:22.9 | And, but basic... |
| 0:24.2 | That's Eve. |
| 0:28.5 | Who needs some WD-40. |
| 0:30.6 | She's had another of her hectic 20s weekends. |
| 0:36.2 | But when you lose your phone these days, it's your whole life that's gone. |
| 0:39.3 | I had a panic. |
| 0:39.9 | It's terrifying. |
| 0:40.9 | I had a panic. |
| 0:41.8 | I took Nancy on a walk and don't judge me for this. |
| 0:44.5 | Nancy is a greyhound. |
| 0:45.6 | Nancy's back legs are very, very stiff these days. |
| 0:48.7 | So sometimes we're a little bit tight for time in the morning. |
| 0:52.5 | So I do pop her in the car to go to the park and then that's good. Because sometimes at the moment she can sit down in the park, and she needs to stay there for half an hour. Well, we've all been there. Exactly, and then we come back. So I was sitting down on the bench in the park, and Nancy was having a nice little sniff around, and I got chatting to somebody. So I thought, oh my God, God I've left my phone on the bench I was getting ready for work about an hour later and I just couldn't find the but you hadn't looked at your phone for an hour no I find that astonishing really yeah I do oh okay so I try very hard to leave my phone in a different room from me in the house now for exactly that reason. And also, because as you and I |
| 1:27.7 | know, because obviously we're working in the world of journalism. Oh my goodness. On a live news |
| 1:32.4 | between two and four every afternoon. And the news pings that come through, you do feel compelled |
| 1:37.0 | to read every single one of them at the moment. There were a lot because we're living in a fast-paced |
| 1:41.8 | political world. But I do try very hard not to always be checking. |
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