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🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Jane joins us from sheltered housing and finds herself tempted by the slow life... Fi brings her back down to earth with topics like poaching or braising, cat CPR, and travelling parrots.
Plus, crime-fiction author Louise Penny discusses her latest novel 'The Black Wolf'.
You can listen to our 'I've got the house to myself' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MkG0A4kkX74TJuVKUPAuJ
We've announced our next book club pick! 'Just Kids' is by Patti Smith.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just prising open a satsuma, trying to get some vitamin C. |
| 0:11.9 | Okay. Jane joins us this week from a safe house where she is being kept away from prying eyes due to ongoing difficulties that she's having with President Trump. |
| 0:26.1 | It's not that at all, is it? |
| 0:28.3 | You are joining us from the sheltered housing that your parents live in. |
| 0:34.6 | And I think I'm just going to hand it over to you to paint the scene that you have in |
| 0:39.4 | front of you, please, in the very best week seven radio training styley. Oh, no, you know, I'm not |
| 0:45.3 | very good at describing things. Look, all people need to know is I'm in the kitchen. My dad has |
| 0:51.6 | been put in another room. He's slightly reluctant, but prepared to go along with it. |
| 0:57.9 | He thought it was starting at 11, so he's a bit disconcerted that it hasn't started |
| 1:02.0 | at 11, so we're a little bit. |
| 1:03.5 | As far as he's concerned, we're running late except we're not. |
| 1:07.0 | So I'm planning to have, well, I'd like to sort of just disappear into a vat of gin at some point in the relatively near future, but it's not on the cards right now. |
| 1:17.9 | I'd suffice to say hospital visiting this afternoon. |
| 1:20.8 | And just out of interest, it is film night tomorrow in the sheltered housing fee. |
| 1:26.3 | And I don't know if you fancy coming along. It's a John |
| 1:29.8 | Grisham film. Is it? Well, I wouldn't mind a John Grisham film. Which one are they showing? |
| 1:35.5 | It's the client. Oh, I love the client. Oh, well, there you go. So it starts at seven o'clock. |
| 1:41.1 | Okay. Well, that's, do you what, I'm surprised it's so late because that, it'll be probably coming in, |
| 1:49.7 | I mean, it's an old film, isn't it? |
| 1:50.9 | So it'll be normal kind of one hour, 40 minutes. |
| 1:54.3 | But does that give enough turnaround time to get ready for bed? |
| 2:00.8 | Yes. |
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