Leaping straight into hockey sex (with Helen Garner)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Jane and Fi consider coming out with their own self-help book and muse on the title: ‘Do Less, Be Happier’ or ‘Can I Be Arsed? Probably Not’… the jury is still out. They also chat about wassailing, cat incontinence, and the dangers of star signs.
Plus, best-selling Australian writer Helen Garner discusses her diaries 'How to End a Story: Collected Diaries', and her new book 'The Mushroom Tapes'.
We’re taking suggestions for our next book club pick! The brief is: books that deserve to be re-read.
Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tuesday the 13th of January. We say hello and happy birthday to all, what would they be, Aquarius? |
| 0:20.0 | I don't know. I'll have to look that up. Are we on the cusp? your birthday to all, what would they be? Aquarius? |
| 0:21.7 | I don't know. |
| 0:22.6 | I'll have to look that up. |
| 0:23.5 | Are we on the cusp? |
| 0:26.4 | I'm feeling a bit cusp. |
| 0:27.3 | On the cusp for years. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm going, I think Sagittarians have had their chips, haven't they, isn't it? |
| 0:32.5 | We've moved on to another one. I think we're in water signs. |
| 0:33.8 | I feel we're in water signs. |
| 0:35.8 | Eve's looked it up. |
| 0:36.8 | Capricorn. Capricorn. |
| 0:38.6 | Capricorn. Aquaris is from the 20th. Thanks so much for that. Thank you very much indeed. |
| 0:45.4 | That's terrible, isn't it? That means that I didn't know the star sign of one of my children, or you, sorry, Eve, that comes first. Eve, let me start that again. |
| 0:54.1 | My boyfriend. My boyfriend. Oh, Eve, that comes first. Eve, let me start that again. |
| 0:56.7 | My boyfriend. |
| 0:57.9 | Oh, God, him. |
| 0:58.9 | And him. |
| 0:59.9 | Yes. |
| 1:03.2 | What kind of a woman are you, been revealed? |
| 1:05.2 | The truth has emerged. |
| 1:06.1 | I didn't know. |
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