Really fruity stuff!
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Happy Monday! Jane’s been putting her pipes to good use over the weekend, and she brings a flavour of it to this episode… aren’t you lucky? Jane and Fi also chat butter wars, claggy swallows, handwriting, and Le Creuset.
Our next book club pick is 'A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute.
The original music for The Greatest Showman is by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
You can listen to our 'I'm in the cupboard on Christmas' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1awQioX5y4fxhTAK8ZPhwQ
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Podcast Producers: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | I can't talk, so I've just taken a big bite of something. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to Monday's off air. |
| 0:13.8 | Fee has a mouthful. |
| 0:15.5 | Of what, may we ask? |
| 0:17.1 | It's very unprofessional. |
| 0:18.6 | Well, I had a sudden craving for a little bit of sweetness. |
| 0:21.8 | Right. |
| 0:23.2 | What did you get? |
| 0:25.7 | She still can't speak. |
| 0:27.5 | She did go to... |
| 0:28.1 | No, I'm just aware of the fact it's really disgusting. |
| 0:31.0 | I know. People don't like it. |
| 0:32.2 | Especially if you're listening on very deep ear butts and somebody's doing one of those claggy swallows. |
| 0:38.4 | Nobody wants to claggy swallows. |
| 0:40.3 | Nobody wants a claggy swallow. |
| 0:42.6 | I tell you what, one thing we have, we've proved beyond all doubt that the butter dish is back. |
| 0:48.4 | Some people say it never went away. |
| 0:50.3 | This is why people reach out for us for our controversial content. |
| 0:53.8 | We go to places, no other podcast even ventures vaguely. This is why people reach out for us for our controversial content. |
| 0:59.8 | We go to places, no other podcast even ventures vaguely in the direction of the butter dish. |
| 1:04.9 | Well, I would say that the butter dish, it really has gone away because of spreadable butter. |
| 1:08.0 | So you had to have a butter dish, didn't you, in the old days? |
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