OFF AIR... EXTRA
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another Friday special. This week's bonus episode features an interview with The Times and Sunday Times' Literary Editor, Robbie Millen, from our Times Radio afternoon show (2–4 pm, Monday to Thursday).
Robbie joins us for our weekly round-up of the best book releases.
His picks this week were:
'The Homemade God' by Rachel Joyce
'Consider Yourself Kissed' by Jessica Stanley
VE Day piece by William Boyd in The Times
'The Names' by Florence Knapp
Speaking of books, get your next book club suggestion in! We'll make a selection at the end of next week.
If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio
Follow us on Instagram! @janeandfi
Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:53.9 | Music Uncomplicated. Learn more at freshworks.com. Welcome to Friday's edition of the Offair podcast with Jane and Fee. We like to give you something from |
| 0:55.8 | our live radio program, Monday to Thursday, 2 till 4 on Times Radio, quite easy to get on the |
| 1:01.5 | app. So because we know that you love your books, we're going to give you a chance to hear |
| 1:07.5 | again our regular feature with Robbie Millen, who is the literary editor of the Times |
| 1:12.9 | and the Sunday Times, and he always pops down, or it might be pops up, we're never really |
| 1:18.2 | allowed on any of the different floors in this building. Literally, our passes won't let us |
| 1:22.6 | in. But anyway, he comes to us from a different floor, He entertains us. He knows exactly what's going on |
| 1:28.7 | in the book world. And here are his fabulous recommendations for this week. He's a little bit |
| 1:34.3 | cheeky too. So when he references the fact that we almost banned him, it's because he used |
| 1:39.2 | a very odd phrase, including the penis word once. Time now to enter our literary salon with the finest minds at the times, and we steady |
| 1:47.7 | ourselves against something firm when Robbie enters the studio. |
| 1:51.6 | A very good afternoon, how are you? |
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