The well trodden path from kilted yoga to Heated Rivalry
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Warning! This episode covers sexual activity! Explicit sexual activity! Jane and Fi also cover getting your tonsils out in Dundee, lying-in hospitals, the Freedom Pass, and poking around...
Plus, director Catherine Abbott discusses her latest film ‘Becoming Victoria Wood’.
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 | Not your department. |
| 0:10.0 | Please don't bring that up with me. |
| 0:12.8 | She has spoken. |
| 0:16.4 | Okay. |
| 0:17.1 | I really like it when Eve gets tough. |
| 0:19.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.7 | And she just delivers it very succinctly, doesn't she? |
| 0:23.4 | And you've been told there, Jo. |
| 0:24.7 | Takes no prisoners. |
| 0:26.5 | Well, I know where I stand. |
| 0:28.7 | Okay. |
| 0:29.9 | Lying in hospitals. |
| 0:31.3 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:32.5 | What a rich scene we're mining here. |
| 0:34.4 | It's interesting though, isn't it? |
| 0:35.4 | It's very interesting, yes. |
| 0:37.1 | So many of you have got recollections of something kind of akin to a lying-in hospital |
| 0:43.0 | and Switzerland is going to come out of the next section well. |
| 0:47.2 | And it deserves to at the moment. Actually, it's had a bloody horrible time, isn't it? |
| 0:50.5 | Kim says, I've never heard of lying in hospitals, |
| 0:53.3 | but when my first son was born in 1981, I was 24, |
| 0:56.9 | and all the new mums in my local general hospital where I had him spent a week in bed, |
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