On the cusp of exercise
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Forget Blue Monday - we’re all about Waffling Monday here! Jane and Fi muse over well-turned calves, party leaders in Lycra, being overwhelmed by M&S, using your boob as a tea towel, and ending friendships over lemon & herb Nando’s.
We’re taking suggestions for our next book club pick! The brief is: books that deserve to be re-read.
Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
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Podcast Producers: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | We've just had a discussion in the studio about how grey the world is. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, it's actually Blue Monday, isn't it today? |
| 0:18.0 | Isn't it what they're called today? |
| 0:19.0 | When everybody hates the world? Everybody hates the world. Credit card bills from Christmas, all that stuff. So we hope you're not feeling that bad today. We're in a really good... We're really bouncing into the week. We really are. I hope you had a good couple of days. You didn't really, did you? Well, I've hurt my back. I know. No, I know you've heard you back. You're being very, very proud. |
| 0:38.9 | Is it so boring. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, it's a bit, no, I'm empathising. |
| 0:44.5 | Yeah, it's boring. |
| 0:45.9 | Is there anything you can do for it? |
| 0:49.2 | I think it is just one of those slight kind of middle-aged things, |
| 0:55.2 | and you just have to take some painkillers, |
| 0:58.1 | not move it around too much and hope for the best. |
| 1:01.6 | So that's what I'm going to do. |
| 1:03.3 | But the funny thing is, I think I did it by walking too much, |
| 1:06.7 | and that's so middle-aged. |
| 1:08.0 | It wasn't like a big thing that happened? Because every other day there's a headline that says, walking, even for 10 minutes a day, lengthens your life by decades. So we do it. And then what happens? And then what happens? Yeah. So I walked back from Islington to Hackney, carrying a very large bag of shopping in front of me and by the time I got home I couldn't |
| 1:28.7 | kind of put my arms down. It was just stuck. Anyway, who cares? We're here. No, we do care. What I was |
| 1:34.6 | going to say, though, big question for you. Think carefully about this one. Have you ever not won a prize |
| 1:40.5 | and then basically told the people who didn't give you a prize that you just weren't |
| 1:46.2 | bothered about the subject anymore. Did you ever do that at school? No, I was very mature |
| 1:50.6 | about that. I didn't win prizes at school. So it was just as well. I took that mature approach. |
| 1:55.2 | Okay. If you'd not won a couple of Sony Golds, would you have written to the Radio Academy and said, I'm not doing |
| 2:02.2 | radio anymore? I don't need to worry about radio anymore because I haven't won a prize. |
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