Little Bo-Fi (with Robert Partridge/Peter Grainger)
6/18/202655 min
The good ship Fi and Eve is sailing into your ears today whilst Jane is away. They cover twin towns, looks of reverie, animal bylaws, sausage cooking techniques, X-rated plums, and push their football knowledge to its absolute limit.
Plus, Peter Grainger, bestselling novelist and retired teacher, who landed his first publishing deal at 72, reflects on finding success later in life and discusses his new book 'Some Sort of Justice'.
You can buy tickets for Fringe by the Sea: https://www.fringebythesea.com/off-air-with-jane-fi-and-special-guest-jan-ravens/
Our next book club pick will be a collection of short stories! 'Interpreter of Maladies' is by Jhumpa Lahiri.
You can check out our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@OffAirWithJaneAndFOur new playlist 'Coiled Spring' is up and running: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tmoCpbp42ae7R1UY8ofza
Our most asked about book is called 'The Later Years' by Peter Thornton.
If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio
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Podcast Producer: Eve Salusbury
Executive Producer: Rosie Cutler
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First 90 secondsFi Glover· Host0:00
[guitar music] Are we recording?
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:09
We are.
Fi Glover· Host0:09
Excellent. Uh, so it is. It's the, uh, the SS Evenfee, and we are setting sail for a very short journey today. We're just doing today, uh, because Jane is attending a funeral, and we really hope that that does what decent funerals should do, uh, which is give everybody a chance to celebrate a life as, as well as contemplating the loss. So, uh, it's just you and me, babes. What type of a ship do you think we are?
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:36
A large...
Fi Glover· Host0:37
This has gone wrong already. [laughs] What? That's very rude.
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:41
I'm thinking regal.
Fi Glover· Host0:43
Regal?
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:44
I'm thinking a lovely kind of mahogany.
Fi Glover· Host0:47
Really?
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:47
Yeah.
Fi Glover· Host0:48
Okay, this is good.
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:48
Big sails coming down the Thames. Maybe people in their offices are going to the windows to see it.
Fi Glover· Host0:54
Really?
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:55
'Cause they're saying, "Oh my God, have you seen that ship?"
Fi Glover· Host0:57
[laughs] Have you seen the Evenfee?
Eve Salusbury· Panelist0:58
It's causing some ripples in the Thames.
Fi Glover· Host1:00
Okay, that's great.
Eve Salusbury· Panelist1:01
That's, that's asking quite a lot of us, isn't it?
Fi Glover· Host1:02
It is.
Eve Salusbury· Panelist1:02
We're not causing ripples.
Fi Glover· Host1:03
[laughs] I mean, to be honest, I think it's been quite a long week.
Eve Salusbury· Panelist1:06
Yes.
Fi Glover· Host1:07
It's Thursday. Uh, just a small tugboat.
Eve Salusbury· Panelist1:09
[laughs] Yes. [laughs] And I had a good time at the football last night.
Fi Glover· Host1:12
Did you? Okay. [laughs] How good a time did you have?
Eve Salusbury· Panelist1:16
Well, it's just ridiculous, isn't it? You'd have thought that we'd won the World Cup last night. You'd have thought we'd won the tournament.
Fi Glover· Host1:22
But we, we... I think it is that, that strange, itchy place of expectation and reality for once