The nation's bits were put through a frightful ordeal! (with William Boyd)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We welcome you to Maundy Thursday. In the penultimate episode before Jane and Fi go off for a week, they learn that their influence knows no bounds in Purley Way! They also chat Winchester vs Basingstoke rivalries, cat-arse dispensers, erotic Ottolenghi recipes, why you should never turn to a bottle of Malibu… and a visit from the Easter Bunny.
Plus, best-selling author William Boyd discusses the paperback of ‘The Predicament’, the second instalment in the Gabriel Dax trilogy.
You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFi
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Our next book club pick is 'A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute.
Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
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| 0:00.0 | Right, welcome on board. |
| 0:09.7 | It is, now it's strictly speaking, it's Morn Day Thursday, isn't it? |
| 0:14.4 | It is. |
| 0:15.1 | Have you brought me a small pouch with some coinage in it in your capacity as, as what? |
| 0:24.5 | Ecclesiastical affairs correspondent. |
| 0:26.8 | Well, the monarch does that. |
| 0:29.4 | Doesn't it? |
| 0:30.5 | They, he or she. |
| 0:31.7 | Yeah, they do. |
| 0:32.2 | They give money to the poor. |
| 0:33.8 | I remember it was very exciting when the Queen visited Winchester Cathedral. To do it. To do it on Mourndy Thursday. It is actually, in its own way, rather a lovely tradition. Yeah, it is. I think it's one of the good ones. What's in the pouch, though, these days? Commemorative coinage of some sort, I think. They don't do tap and pay now. No, I imagine. He just go along and beep. |
| 0:55.8 | And ask the king for a donation. |
| 0:58.1 | I mean, he's got a few quills. |
| 0:59.0 | Yeah, was it £5, £10, £15, your choice. |
| 1:02.9 | Five grand, $50,000, whatever it might be. |
| 1:06.9 | Anyway, this is our last... |
| 1:09.0 | Oh no, it's not, because we've got the book club podcast tomorrow |
| 1:11.9 | when we discuss Neville Shoots, a town like Alice. |
| 1:15.2 | And thank you so much to everybody talk part in that, |
| 1:17.3 | and you can get that podcast tomorrow. |
| 1:19.3 | We recorded it yesterday. |
| 1:20.5 | Yep, and feel free if you listen to it |
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