He didn't realise he was talking to a gobsh*te! (with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall)
5/5/20261 hr 3 min
Jane and Fi are reunited after the bank holiday, and they've concluded it was a bit hot! We hope you had a good one... Jane and Fi cover losing confidence in driving as you age, whether we’ve gone too far with the number of condiments available today, how cute really chunky babies are, and the pleasure of lending libraries.
Plus, cook and writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall discusses his new cookbook ‘High Fibre Heroes’.
Our next book club pick will be a collection of short stories! 'Interpreter of Maladies' is by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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First 90 secondsJane Garvey· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Just accuse myself of being pompous. Welcome to Tuesday's edition of Off Air with Jane and Fi. Let's check in with Fi and see if she had a good bank holiday weekend. Did you have a good bank holiday weekend, Fi?
Fi Glover· Host0:19
It's very kind of you to ask. I hope this finds you well.
Jane Garvey· Host0:22
Thank you.
Fi Glover· Host0:22
Uh, we were just talking about that as the opening to emails. I use it, you use it, Eve's used it. None of us like ourselves for using it.
Jane Garvey· Host0:30
No.
Fi Glover· Host0:30
But I genuinely can't remember what we used to do.
Jane Garvey· Host0:33
Hello.
Fi Glover· Host0:33
Well, no, no, but you- Not, not in an email.
Jane Garvey· Host0:35
No.
Fi Glover· Host0:35
Because let's say the email is the letter. So in, in a letter, let's say you were writing to a, an, an old friend or an aunt or... So not a formal letter. You would have gone, "Dear Patricia."
Jane Garvey· Host0:49
"I hope you're well."
Fi Glover· Host0:50
"I hope you're well."
Jane Garvey· Host0:51
I think.
Fi Glover· Host0:52
I don't know whether we would actually. Anyway, we'll take thoughts on this subject.
Jane Garvey· Host0:57
Yes, Eve.
Fi Glover· Host0:57
I had a lovely bank holiday weekend. It was just the right level of... We had one day of blooming sunshine- Mm. -didn't we, on the Friday?
Jane Garvey· Host1:05
Mm-hmm.
Fi Glover· Host1:05
Uh, where you did think, "Well, it's a little hot."
Jane Garvey· Host1:08
[laughs] Yes, it was too much. Too much.
Fi Glover· Host1:10
Little hot by three o'clock. [laughs] And then a suitable, uh, amount of damp by the end of it, and I think I declare myself to be ninety percent slightly soggy barbecue and picky bits- Yeah, I think- -by bank holiday Monday.
Jane Garvey· Host1:24
-refreshingly by bank holiday Monday afternoon. There was a real hint of winter, which is exactly what I wanted to feel.
Fi Glover· Host1:28
I had to put my heating back on for- Exactly.