The Whirligig We Carry (with Henry Marsh)
Off Air with Jane & Fi
The Times
4.7 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
It’s Double Tash Thursday! Welcome! Jane picks her pope of the week (no prizes for guessing who), they also cover UFO sightings, riding side saddle, and not getting Charlie Chaplin. Haveagoodone.
Plus, pioneering brain surgeon and writer Henry Marsh reflects on his career and discusses the new documentary about his life 'Confessions of a Brain Surgeon'.
We've announced our next book club pick! 'Just Kids' is by Patti Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | If anybody went to the fantastic club whirligigig in London, it's their kind of symbol, isn't it? |
| 0:07.6 | Well, it looks like one of those old-fashioned washing contraptions, drying contraptions, |
| 0:11.8 | which we used to call at home the whirligig. |
| 0:13.7 | Did you not? |
| 0:14.5 | And that's the difference between us. |
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