Noah Wyle for prime minister?
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Welcome to Tuesday - and to the podcast, if you are a decent man or a kind woman! Jane and Fi tackle some biggies today: Simon Cowell in a cot, oboe-face mishaps, casually dated photographs, hard trousers, kitchen storage, and standard premium train travel.
Plus, writer and academic Katriona O'Sullivan discusses her new book 'Hungry'.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Tuesday. Lots of comparisons being made between the UK and Italy, because Italy was always changing it to Prime Minister. They've had Georgia Maloney for quite some time now, and we're becoming them. |
| 0:20.0 | So if Kirstama goes, |
| 0:22.6 | what will we have had six prime ministers in seven years |
| 0:26.0 | or seven prime ministers in six years? |
| 0:27.8 | We first came to Times Radio in the Liz Truss. |
| 0:31.8 | No, she was, yes, she was still prime minister, wasn't she? |
| 0:34.9 | No, I think we came, didn't we come in the dying embers of Boris Johnson? |
| 0:41.0 | No, because we came after the Queen had died and Liz Truss was Prime Minister when the Queen died. |
| 0:48.8 | Did we? Yeah. Yeah. It's all a bit hazy in my mind. But yes, we were definitely here for the demise of Liz Truss, |
| 0:57.2 | so we then would have been here for the arrival of Rishi Sooner. |
| 1:00.8 | Yes. |
| 1:01.6 | We then were partied to a general election. |
| 1:05.4 | That's right. |
| 1:06.1 | And the election of Sir Keir Starmer. |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.3 | But in the days before Boris Johnson, |
| 1:12.5 | so how many years was that? |
| 1:15.7 | This is a very helpful in an erudite run-through of prime ministers. |
| 1:19.4 | So hang on, we would have gone from... |
| 1:20.6 | Can you hear the gags? |
| 1:32.9 | I've got a very, very sleepy brain today yeah well it's weird actually because i've had an awful lot of sleep last night well our colleague felix has just said that we're |
| 1:36.6 | get you i don't think you were here for this he said we're getting like italy uh except without the |
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