Nothing the youths enjoy more than a middle-aged woman caked in mud
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It’s Monday, which means you can see Jane’s clean shirt before she pours ketchup all over herself… You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi
In today’s episode, Jane and Fi address lady cars, mega-wealth, the buttocks of Samuel Pepys, gluten-free wafers, lattes that make you fart, and the different ways to make sure you've got all 1000 pieces of your jigsaw puzzle.
The book recommended today is London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe.
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 | Look, let's get going. |
| 0:08.8 | We can't put it off any longer. |
| 0:10.3 | Welcome to Offair with Jane and Fee, brand new week. |
| 0:13.7 | And you are possibly listening to this, |
| 0:16.8 | but you may be watching it in visualised form on YouTube. |
| 0:20.5 | So we are visualised form on YouTube. |
| 0:24.9 | So we are visualised on a Monday from here to eternity. |
| 0:30.1 | And I don't know, does it alter the way that you think about coming into work on a Monday? |
| 0:34.3 | I try not to have a stain on my top layer. |
| 0:34.9 | Yes. |
| 0:37.3 | It's not always possible, but I am conscious of it. I mean, by the way, as soon as this is over, you will have stains everywhere. I will have stains everywhere. I pour ketchup all over myself just by way of celebration. But no, I like to start in relatively pristine condition. Okay. From a low base. You know, that's about as about as much as I can do. And we do go And we do go into makeup, let's not deny it. |
| 0:56.0 | But the blokes do as well, don't they? |
| 0:58.4 | Well, otherwise we'd be very shiny. |
| 1:00.4 | Just be shiny. |
| 1:00.9 | We've been sharing some space with some very testosteroney chaps, |
| 1:05.1 | and in fairness a chappess about to do a football podcast in another part of the building. |
| 1:10.0 | They were deep in the weeds of research for that, weren't there? |
| 1:15.3 | I mean, I love football, as regular listeners will know, but I couldn't spend too much time |
| 1:20.3 | in the weeds of possession. |
| 1:23.9 | Let's not go there. |
| 1:24.9 | Let's not go there. |
| 1:25.8 | And also because we inherit the studio from a podcast all about sport |
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