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Off Air with Jane & Fi

OFF AIR... EXTRA

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

Conversation, Relationships, Fi Glover, News, Women, Community, Chat, Entertainment News, Society & Culture, The Times, Jane Garvey, Times Radio, Entertainment

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to a Friday special! This week's bonus episode features an interview with Helen Rumbelow, a features writer for The Times. She spoke to Jane about her fantastic, if unsettling, piece from last week regarding the links between the worlds of Jeffrey Epstein, Gisèle Pelicot, and pornography.


You can read Helen’s full article, "Epstein, Pelicot and the toxic culture of 'teen' porn," here: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/acrime/article/gisele-pelicot-jeffrey-epstein-toxic-culture-porn-mlw8kzmwh


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Podcast Producers: Hannah Quinn and Eve Salusbury

Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Jane and welcome to a Friday bonus edition of Offair with Jane and Fee.

0:14.2

Now, we thought we would invite one of the most powerful feature writers on The Times to join us for a Friday special. It's Helen

0:22.6

Rumbullo, who often, and you'll find out why, finds herself writing about pornography. And in the

0:30.5

last couple of weeks, she's written some incredible pieces about the links between Epstein,

0:36.3

Giselle Pelico's ordeal

0:38.1

and the pornography industry.

0:40.9

And sometimes it makes for pretty difficult reading,

0:44.4

but she makes some very, very powerful points.

0:47.2

So we thought we'd bring her in for a longer conversation.

0:49.9

And here is Helen Rumbullo telling me

0:52.3

how she first started writing about the porn industry.

0:56.5

Well, actually, it goes back to 1999, which is really long time ago now,

1:02.9

and a kind of, yeah, centuries in terms of porn.

1:06.2

But I happen to be a young female reporter on this paper covering a case, which was, again,

1:13.9

this sounds so antiquated now, but it was about a video, a porn video, and it was the British

1:19.3

government basically wanting to prevent hardcore being shown in Britain, which now again

1:27.3

incredibly antiquated this idea of videos and also the

1:30.3

idea of hardcore, meaning what it did then, which was literally just showing sex on screen.

1:36.5

And I actually had this conversation because I've been doing porn more recently now for the paper,

1:40.4

but I had this conversation with a young man in the office.

1:43.2

He was like, what?

1:50.0

You couldn't, it was illegal to see sex on screen. And I was like, yep. But yeah,

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