Ken Follett jigsaw and matching underwear? (with Elly Griffiths)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to this episode of intergenerational strife - Fi's off for the day, so Eve props Jane up. They chat pureed food, search history, the out-of-shape Olympics, children in restaurants and the fading art of the Tannoy.
Plus, best selling novelist Elly Griffiths discusses her latest book ‘The Killing Time’.
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.
You can listen to our 'I'm in the cupboard on Christmas' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1awQioX5y4fxhTAK8ZPhwQ
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Podcast Producers: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Wednesday's off air with Jane and I mean there's just no getting away from it. |
| 0:15.6 | Hiya. |
| 0:17.8 | So Fee's off today, as she explained yesterday, but she's doing something very important, |
| 0:22.4 | as she also explained yesterday, |
| 0:23.7 | and she'll be back to worry, won't she? |
| 0:25.5 | She will. |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:26.5 | But in the meantime... |
| 0:27.7 | In the meantime. |
| 0:29.1 | We have intergenerational strife |
| 0:31.1 | with Eve and me. |
| 0:34.2 | We're crossing the divide. |
| 0:35.8 | Eve and I. |
| 0:38.3 | Julie says, please can we have Eve with her lovely voice clearly? |
| 0:42.1 | Not like she's sitting cross-legged in a box. |
| 0:44.9 | Love the show, says Julie. |
| 0:46.6 | It was Jane that put me in the box. |
| 0:48.2 | That was on Wednesday, on Monday when we were doing our pilot visualization episode that you only heard in audio form. |
| 0:57.4 | And the emails are still coming in, aren't they? There's no escaping it. |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.8 | Well, yeah, we had some discussions off the back of it. |
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