Up and down the street with a loudhailer

Off Air... with Jane and Fi

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News, Times Radio, Jane Garvey, Entertainment News, Fi Glover, News Commentary, Conversation, The Times

4.7 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

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.

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0:00.0	As a child, there was a rumour
0:02.3	that if you did fiddle with your belly button
0:04.3	your bottom would fall off.
0:05.7	Did you hear that?
0:06.3	No, I didn't.
0:07.0	Okay, well, no, I do.
0:08.2	Because it was definitely something.
0:09.9	By the way, I'm not a doctor.
0:11.8	But that's not true either.
0:16.5	Mum first died
0:17.7	when she couldn't work out
0:19.4	how to prepare a legendary roast.
0:22.6	Mum died again when she asked me what my name was.
0:29.4	On the 10th of March, mum died a final time, surrounded by her family.
0:35.9	With dementia, you die again and again and again.
0:40.0	Which is why at Alzheimer's society, we'll be with you again and again and again.
0:46.2	Morning, Steve.
0:47.5	Oh, right then. I've got five pay-run errors to fix.
0:50.4	Eight policies to review.
0:51.6	All in that employment contract, I should have sent yesterday.
0:54.0	Three jobs to post, two races to sort out, and hang on, am I forgetting something?
0:58.2	Happy birthday, Steve!
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