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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Happy Thursday! Feel free to suck the goodness out of this episode and spit the rest into a napkin. Jane Pongo Garvey and Fi chat manned petrol pumps, maternity, the longevity of baths, and The National Trust.
Plus, comedian Tom Allen joins to discuss gardening and his new podcast 'Pottering with Tom Allen'.
Please get your thoughts in for book club! We will be recording it next week.
You can listen to our 'I've got the house to myself' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2MkG0A4kkX74TJuVKUPAuJ
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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| 0:00.0 | I listen to you before falling asleep if I should nod off before the end I catch up the following morning. |
| 0:04.4 | Wake up, Jane! |
| 0:07.7 | You're driving! |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know. |
| 0:22.5 | As long as you don't say something terrible. |
| 0:24.1 | We won't say anything terrible. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:27.5 | This is Offair with Jane Fee. |
| 0:31.8 | If you're a new listener, what could we say to anyone who's a new listener? |
| 0:33.8 | Well, just give it a go. |
| 0:38.4 | I mean, it's a little bit like when you're trying to introduce vegetables to a toddler. |
| 0:44.5 | And I think doesn't the rule book says, or the book of experience says you've got to test the, |
| 0:49.2 | you've got to put it in front of them 14 times before they'll eat it. And I would take the same kind of approach to this. I wouldn't, don't spit it out right away. Give a couple more rather tangled and tatty meal |
| 0:57.4 | times and then you might find a little bit of familiarity and comfort. Most people fall asleep to us. |
| 1:04.2 | Suck the goodness out of it and then you can just spit it into a napkin. Right, this is off-air with |
| 1:09.2 | Jane Fee which encompasses any number of different cul-de-sacs |
| 1:13.5 | boulevards highways to hell and other places and next week patty smith's book |
| 1:19.9 | what's it called again just kids just kids just kids we are going to do the book club next week |
| 1:25.4 | in fact we're recording it on budget day and we'll make it available later that week. Yeah. We do have, for new listeners, an informal book club, |
| 1:32.9 | which convenes about four or five times a year and we look at a book that isn't currently in the |
| 1:38.3 | charts. That's right, isn't it? Yeah, by USP is, it's a book that might have passed you by and you think it's worth returning to. |
| 1:47.9 | And we've done all kinds of genres and we settled on biography for this one because we haven't done a memoir before. |
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