Ripping my shirt off in M&S just for a thrill (Andrew Lownie)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The heat is getting to Jane and Fi and they're getting themselves into a right muddle with bra sizing. They also cover rugged terrain on the King's Road, diaper parties, the charms of Worcester, spooky parking talents, and extravagant wedding outfits.
They're also joined by royal biographer Andrew Lownie to discuss the paperback of his book 'Entitled'.
You can buy tickets for Fringe by the Sea: https://www.fringebythesea.com/off-air-with-jane-fi-and-special-guest-jan-ravens/
Our next book club pick will be a collection of short stories! 'Interpreter of Maladies' is by Jhumpa Lahiri.
You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndF
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Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | it wants us to stay living there for a very long time well i saw a friend over the weekend |
| 0:12.9 | who'd um felt funny feelings in a property not unconnected to her family i hope i'm distancing |
| 0:18.4 | her from what have she they she got a shaman in. Wow. Okay. |
| 0:24.1 | She felt there were presences. Well, I don't think she's alone in that. Oh, gosh. Weave. |
| 0:32.2 | In fact, there's a newsreader who occasionally is on this station. He does exorcisms, doesn't he? |
| 0:37.1 | Oh, yes. That's's right same kind of thing |
| 0:39.3 | so i don't feel i mean obviously i've had my spookiness in bromley yeah but that was you're not in bromley |
| 0:44.1 | no not in bromley so no i think my house is just trying to tell us that we should stay it's just |
| 0:49.2 | yeah that's what i mean yeah it's just kind of heard love to help don't leave me. My mum, who's a very, very rational person and very intelligent person, |
| 0:58.9 | she really felt that one of our previous houses in North Waltham, |
| 1:04.4 | near Basingstoke Jane, was haunted. |
| 1:07.7 | And the dog used to sit at the bottom of the stairs and occasionally just howl and he was a |
| 1:13.3 | very very good nature dog and very you know malleable and mild but something used to spook him |
| 1:19.6 | and mum then did discover that there was a priest hole in the house and many priests died in priest holes and she used to stay up of an evening |
| 1:30.5 | in the hope of seeing the ghost and i remember thinking oh this is very weird we rented the house out |
| 1:36.3 | when we went to live in hong kong for a while and the people who moved in there got spooked by |
| 1:43.0 | something and it was the very hot summer of 76 |
| 1:46.3 | and they ended up spending most of the summer sleeping outside |
| 1:49.1 | because they were a bit afraid of whatever was in the house. |
| 1:52.7 | Isn't that weird? |
| 1:53.3 | That's very weird. |
| 1:54.4 | Really an anecdote more appropriate to, you know, special time, October. |
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