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Off Air with Jane & Fi

Modesty held together with a brooch and a prayer... (with Sarah Vaughan)

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

News, Relationships, Community, Society & Culture, The Times, Chat, Entertainment News, Entertainment, Conversation, Jane Garvey, Fi Glover, Women, Times Radio

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

It’s Tuesday and we’re all here, but Jane’s not entirely sure how she’s getting home. She can worry about that later... Jane and Fi tackle the big questions today: Was Ambridge a Roman settlement? Does the broadcasting industry have a disproportionate number of Brians? What did people do before buttons? And are hedgehogs creepy?


Plus, writer and journalist Sarah Vaughan discusses her latest book ‘Based on a True Story’.


You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi

Our new playlist 'Coiled Spring' is up and running: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tmoCpbp42ae7R1UY8ofza


Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.


If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radioFollow us on Instagram! @janeandfi


Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury

Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler


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0:00.0

Has Olly Robbins stopped? That's not him, is it?

0:11.6

I think you must have done. I mean, apart from anything else, the select committee started

0:15.4

at what, 9 o'clock, and nobody had had a comfort break. I always think that. I think, well, you know, surely the claxon sounds and everybody heads to the loo. By 10.30, you'd be able to see, especially in the morning. You've had a lot of coffee. A lot of coffee, a lot of tea. Yep, a lot of hydration. We're just briefly straying into politics there with a reference to Olly Robbins appearing at the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. Sir Ollie.

0:38.8

Sorry, Sir Ollie.

0:39.6

Yeah.

0:43.6

So we can't yet tell you exactly what he said. You wouldn't want to hear it from us anyway.

0:45.6

It all needs a bit of shakedowning, doesn't it, before we know exactly?

0:51.3

I think it isn't the top line that he... I wouldn't even go there, Fiona. Let's wait until a man tells us what happened.

0:59.8

He couldn't and wouldn't, but the emphasis is on the couldn't, elaborate on whether or not Peter

1:07.2

Mandelson, Lord Mandelson, had, whether they'd found anything different or new when they

1:14.6

did the special vetting procedure that led to him not getting through the special vetting

1:19.5

procedure. Because as Soroli said, if I answered that question, that's what would be news

1:25.7

for days, weeks and months to come.

1:29.1

There's people trying to find out what that was.

1:32.0

But it's one of those weird things where in not answering the question

1:36.0

and alluding to the amount of interest, there would be, in not answering the question,

1:41.3

there's an awful lot of interest in the fact that the question couldn't be answered.

1:44.8

Got it?

1:45.4

Yeah, I think so. There are still questions that need to be answered.

1:48.8

Thank you. That's one. That's a simpler way of putting it.

1:52.4

Well, I don't know.

1:53.1

But, yeah, I mean, it's just a lot, it's a lot of stuff for one man.

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