OFF AIR... EXTRA
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a Friday special! This week’s bonus episode features a deep dive into the 'Big Tech’s Little Victims' campaign. Jane and Fi spoke to the headteacher of a school that used four fake 13-year-old profiles to look at exactly how social media algorithms can hijack a childhood.
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Podcast Producers: Hannah Quinn and Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Friday's bonus edition of Offair with Jane and Fee. |
| 0:12.4 | We always try and bung something in the Friday edition that we've been talking about in our live program. |
| 0:17.5 | Corporate Cathy can tell you the details. |
| 0:20.1 | Times Radio is where you'll fight. Corporate Kathy's not with it. Corporate Kathy wants you to know |
| 0:26.2 | that we're on Times Radio Monday to Thursday between 2 o'clock and 4. And do you know what? |
| 0:31.2 | The easiest way to find us is actually get your smartphone, go to the App Store, get the Times Radio app. |
| 0:37.1 | It will not cost you a penny. |
| 0:39.5 | And you can hear all Times Radio's output, including all the great podcasts the Times produces. |
| 0:44.9 | I thought that was good. |
| 0:45.6 | I thought that was absolutely blissful. |
| 0:47.7 | So today we're going to bring you a conversation with the principle of an academy, because we've been talking talking a lot as you would expect in a news program |
| 0:56.6 | about what's on the social media platforms at the moment every story that we cover takes us to a really |
| 1:03.2 | really dark place but the problem that we've found is that when we talk about what our teenagers |
| 1:08.6 | are being exposed to we don't really illuminate the |
| 1:12.1 | audience as to the exact nature of the images and the text. So what we're going to try and do in this |
| 1:17.6 | conversation is rectify that situation a bit by literally describing to you some of the stuff |
| 1:24.3 | that if you've got teenagers, they might be scrolling through on their phone. |
| 1:29.0 | So it goes without saying that you're going to hear stuff that might be a little bit disturbing, |
| 1:34.9 | it might be a little bit obscene, but we are trying to do this not in a salacious way, |
| 1:40.0 | but to actually be helpful. Because it's difficult, isn't it, as a parent, to know exactly what it is that your kids are looking at. |
| 1:47.7 | We don't always know simple things like, you know, |
| 1:50.6 | what kind of stuff we should put into a search engine |
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