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Off Air with Jane & Fi

Was marshmallow brought over on the Mayflower? (with Sally Wainwright)

Off Air with Jane & Fi

The Times

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4.7884 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Gobble Gobble! Happy Thanksgiving... Jane and Fi try to clear up why Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November - and fail miserably. They also attempt to make sense of Easy Peelers, being Irish-adjacent, and the “e” at the end of “Concorde.”


Plus, screenwriter Sally Wainwright discusses her latest show 'Riot Women'.


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

For years, I had a child who dressed as Postman Pat, and it just became, in the end,

0:05.3

you just thought, God, is she ever going to grow out of this?

0:09.3

Don't you know, it's been privatised. At least DPD yourself.

0:29.4

Well, welcome to post-budget Thursday, as it's known in bus stops and cafes across the country.

0:32.1

Everyone's still talking about the obioli.

0:46.6

So I tell you what is very, very worth using today as one of those budget calculators where you can tap in all of your details and the times it will tell you whether or not you're better or worse off.

0:47.5

Right.

0:51.7

And well, I mean, let's just be honest about this, Jane.

0:54.1

Do you want some time to eat your satsuma?

0:56.0

I think it's an easy peeler.

0:56.9

An easy peeler?

1:03.3

I don't think an easy peeler is not the flora and fauna name for it, is it?

1:06.9

No, I mean, I've been confused by this before.

1:07.8

What is it?

1:14.8

So they've obviously crossed bread some citrus fruit to make it supposedly easier to be.

1:19.0

But it's a satsuma, but they just bill it in the way that you can handle it.

1:23.3

But that would be like going into a florist and there'd be a lovely rose and it would just say,

1:24.3

smells nice.

1:27.0

Can I buy 12? Smells Nice, please? While we're talking about funny things,

1:28.3

Eve, would you mind just telling everybody what your other half is planning to cook for

1:33.2

they're having a Thanksgiving dinner tonight? And you don't mind saying, do you? Poor Eve.

1:40.2

That your partner has promised. Elevated mac and cheese. Elevated mac and cheese. I think that's lovely. Is that going to have crunchy onion bits on top? So I think it might have some texture, but he was kind of considering, well, he wanted to do a kind of mac and cheese, collie cheese type thing, but he was worried if it was going to be too beige. So then he sort of threatened to blitz up some spinach and make the whole thing great cream.

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