Never as far as Reading without a bumper pack of Imodium
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It’s 2026, and Jane and Fi are back - reunited and ready to run their mouths. In this episode, they demonstrate their budding potential as high-level film critics. There’s chat about hair transplants, Imodium, and the WoolOvers debate is reopened… then firmly closed.
There’s also conversation surrounding grief and loss.
Recommendations you'll hear in this episode: 'The Thinking Game' documentary, 'Gabriel's Moon' and 'The Predicament' by William Boyd, 'A Schooling in Murder' by Andrew Taylor, and musician Jesse Welles' 'Join Ice' song.
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
If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio
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Podcast Producers: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | So welcome. It is 2026, a very happy new year to you all. I hope that your festive season. Well, I just hope you survived your festive season, really. There's no need to dwell on it, but obviously we will take emails |
| 0:23.6 | if you need to get little things off your chest. |
| 0:26.8 | I'm delighted to say that Lady Jane Garvey, Dame Lady Jane Garvey of, |
| 0:32.2 | well, you can't be Crosby, because Shirley Williams is Baroness Crosby. |
| 0:37.2 | What's the closest thing? |
| 0:39.3 | Oh, God, you've got me thinking. |
| 0:41.7 | I just thought I'd settle for the Duchess of Liverpool. |
| 0:43.7 | Duchess? Why not? |
| 0:45.1 | Why not? |
| 0:45.8 | So Baroness Scouse is back in the building. |
| 0:51.2 | And you've got some news, Jane. |
| 0:53.4 | Well, I mean, my mum wouldn't want this to be ignored. |
| 0:58.1 | Because, you know, a bit like both of her daughters, she wasn't exactly unattracted to |
| 1:05.7 | drama and attention. |
| 1:07.4 | And it's just worth saying, look, my mum was lovely. |
| 1:09.3 | She was a great, great mum. |
| 1:11.3 | But she did die just before Christmas. And she was 91 and three quarters. And Christmas has |
| 1:17.4 | been a bit of a theme on our podcast and on some of our shows over the years. Part of the reason I was |
| 1:23.5 | obsessed by Christmas in quite a negative way. Yes, she was. |
| 1:28.9 | I absolutely acknowledge it. |
| 1:30.1 | It's because my mum really made a thing about it. |
| 1:33.8 | And now my sister and I have laughed about this. |
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