Stolen glances by the sensitive-gut kibble (with Jennie Godfrey)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
It's Thursday and we're about to break up for half-term... Fi's off next week so Jane will be holding down - with some (minimal) help along the way. Before that happens, they chat about Dick Van Dyke, revision periods, CoolCats in a GoPro, and finding love in Asda.
Plus, best-selling author Jennie Godfrey discusses her new novel T'he Barbecue at No. 9'.
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| 0:00.0 | What is the most modern house I've ever lived in? |
| 0:10.0 | What's the most modern house you've ever lived? |
| 0:12.0 | Well, Dad always lived in flats in Hong Kong, so those were very, very modern indeed. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, sorry. I didn't know we were doing it. I was just talking. |
| 0:20.0 | But in terms of modern, modern houses... Well, I didn't know we were doing it. I was just talking. But in terms of modern, modern houses. |
| 0:22.6 | Well, I suppose the house I first remember as a child would have been built in the 60s. |
| 0:28.6 | Okay. |
| 0:29.6 | A little semi. Yeah, so, yeah. |
| 0:32.6 | Yeah. I think the first house that my mum and dad bought, which they kept the particulars, it was £2,000. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah, I do remember, I think my mum and dad's first house was 2,200. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, well, you always have to go on better. |
| 0:48.3 | That's Liverpool for you, what can I say? |
| 0:50.3 | So this was in Sunningdale in... |
| 0:52.3 | What? |
| 0:53.3 | But you know what? I was just wondering then, back then, |
| 0:56.4 | there wouldn't have been such a huge difference in property prices |
| 0:59.0 | between the south and the north? |
| 1:00.7 | No. |
| 1:01.3 | They wouldn't. That's really interesting. |
| 1:02.9 | And also the cottage that mum and dad bought, |
| 1:05.0 | it had no inside toilet or bathroom. |
| 1:08.3 | Mum was pregnant and she was still having to go outside to the shed |
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