Off Air with Jane & Fi
Jane Garvey and Fi Glover keep the mics on, grab a cuppa and say what they really think - unencumbered and off air.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 621
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Up and down the street with a loudhailer
Please be warned: accents feature in this email-only podcast episode. Jane and Fi also discuss adolescence, Hadrian's Wall, Mother's Day, and Basingstoke.
Send your suggestions for the next book cl…
Book Club - Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Jane and Fi are back with their eighth book club, and this one's gone internationale - get the nibbles ready...
Plus, Nicholas Pearson, Hilary Mantel's editor and publisher of 20 years, joins Jane a…
Please avoid space if you've got a vagina! (with Sara Cox and Clare Hamilton)
Jane and Fi have something to get off their collective podcast breasts, and amid that, there's also chat about space travel, rumours of who will be the next Archbishop, advice on Mother’s Day, and mo…
Kinky in Kingham (with Ruth Wilson)
Accent alert in this podcast — proceed with caution! Jane and Fi chat saucy postcards, sex work, twin towns, and space nappies.
Plus, actor Ruth Wilson discusses narrating the new audio books for th…
Kind Regards, Jane and Fi
The Lady has landed, and it's causing a stir... Jane and Fi also chat sufferable men, bonny babies, Lucozade, and 80085.
Plus, Phyllida Lloyd — director of The Iron Lady, Mamma Mia!, and Tina: The T…
With Love, Jane and Fi
Welcome to this unspecial email-only podcast episode — Jane and Fi chat Cockney frogs, twinned towns, and St. Patrick's Day.
The next book club episode is coming this Friday. The book is 'Eight Mont…
OFF AIR... EXTRA
Welcome back to another Friday special. This week's bonus episode features an interview with The Times' Deputy Literary Editor, Laura Hackett, from our Times Radio afternoon show (2–4 pm, Monday to T…
'Awful, really boring, feminist women' (with Emma Barnett)
Book club is coming (finally), so prepare yourselves and get in touch! Jane and Fi chat bird song, burly beavers, sex workers, pets on zoom, divorce, a pig in a poke and Australia, amongst other thin…
Nothing like the pong of an economy scented candle (with Baroness Lane-Fox)
If you have been impacted by any of the dross discussed on Off Air, just contact an action line... This episode's dross includes turtle soup, the Adelphi, quilting, and harmony on the heath.
Plus,…
Taunton Vanilla
We're all about minimum effort, maximum impact round here. Jane and Fi chat Pepper Pig, the gynaecology of hens and hairdresser etiquette.
Plus, campaigner and mother of two autistic children Lisa L…
A bit of pampering and a digest shot (with Jodie Whittaker)
Welcome to this carefully curated episode. We begin with the admin section before moving on to toddler Crufts, ear health and pet anal glands... Enjoy!
Plus, Fi speaks to actress Jodie Whittaker abo…
OFF AIR... EXTRA
Welcome back to another Friday special. This week's bonus episode features an interview from our Times Radio afternoon show (2–4 pm, Monday to Thursday).
The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies…
Private download gone public (with Sue Campbell)
Jane and Fi somehow manage to link the gendering of chickens to bedside chocolate bars... tune in to find out how.
And Jane speaks to Sue Campbell, Former Director of Women's Football at the FA, abou…
An unusually erudite edition...
In today’s episode, Jane and Fi delve into whether it’s acceptable to make use of someone else’s Ring doorbell, the gynaecology of a hen, and Jane’s robot companion, Craig.
Additionally, Fi speaks w…
She doesn't have a drawer of joy (with Jared Harris)
Happy flipping on this fine Shrove Tuesday! Today, Jane shares a memory of being left fully exposed on the loo at a National Trust property, while Fi recalls delivering a lesson on life at the Britan…
WHAT IS HAPPENING (with Esther Ghey)
Global events can't be ignored, but there's still room for more vasectomy debate and the ladies ponder how Americans know the week has ended without a Sunday roast.
Plus, Jane speaks to Esther Ghey ab…
A delicious puddle of unashamed oestrogen (with Tuppence Middleton)
Jane is angry at the world because it isn't her birthday... but it is Fi's. They talk more class nonsense, the etymology of "napkin" and Screwfix spam.
Plus, Fi speaks to actress Tuppence Middleton ab…
Did Trump go to school? (with Anthony Scaramucci)
In today's episode, Jane has a bone to pick with Fi, whose new glasses bear an uncanny resemblance to a pair Jane was once mercilessly teased for wearing.
And Jane speaks to Anthony Scaramucci on hi…
In case you come back as a pigeon...
Jane questions whether she should have been a TV critic—despite refusing to watch any film or show beginning with a 'W'. Meanwhile, Fi puts to rest one of the less interesting mysteries of our time, …
You've triggered me darling (with Nancy Birtwhistle)
Fi's back from her holidays and Jane can't be sure she didn't take such a news-heavy week off on purpose.
Big questions are asked, such as: why does Robert De Niro walk like that? Will the PTA live fo…