Jane and Fi are live at Latitude and they talk air-con and licking Mary Berry. 
Richard Curtis and Emma Freud join to talk about their Suffolk themed cooking show at the festival and Richard’s new play Christmas Actually. 
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We know damn well you're here because it's really heavily raining.

How many people are here because of the rain?

How many people are here because it's Jane and Fee?

How many people didn't understand the questions?

Now, look, this is high-tech stuff going on.

We've got really fantastic guests for you.

But they've got a very, very busy schedule, so they've got to go at 6.15 on the dot.

So I've set my alarm, and it's going to go off at 6.15.

And a little bit like Panto, you've all got to remind me at 6.15 if for some reason the ringer doesn't work.

So we are here to record an edition of our Times Radio podcast Off Air.

How many people in the marquee have ever heard Off Air?

It drops on all good podcast platforms Monday to Thursday, so you have no excuse.

And we do have really decent guests, thoroughly decent ones, 4 nights a week, and you will enjoy them even if you can't stand either of us.

So, please do have a listen via the Times Radio app, which is free.

involved in any kind of mucky stuff, it doesn't track your details, you know, it won't sell your house for you or try and sell you intermittent fasting or all of those other things that chase you around the internet.

Do you people who are standing up, do you want to come forward and sit down?

I mean, it's much easier to make a getaway, isn't it, if you're standing?

It's very embarrassing if you're down at the front and halfway through you think, no, I really want to get up and leave.

Would you all like to congratulate Jane on her amazingly sensible footwear?

I had relatively high hopes for the weather.

But I've had a pedicure, and I think if you've laid out for 1 you may as well let people see your feet, frankly.

That's the view I take, yes, good, glad other people are going to be wearing flip flops across the weekend.

When by the way you can be entertained by other Times radio broadcasters.

So tomorrow Ruth Davidson will be here in this tent between...

Well, she's in the afternoon and she's got some amazing guests including Chelsea Manning and I think in a way that's just a brilliant illustration of the range of content that Latitude offers.

So Ruth, tomorrow afternoon, and then on Sunday, Saturday is Hugo Rifkind, isn't it?

Yeah, And on Sunday, we've got John Pienaar, who is a massive fan of Latitude, doing his politics show on Sunday morning.

Now, it doesn't actually matter if you're bored stiff by us, because Emma Freud and Richard Curtis will be properly interesting and you will be able to ask them questions.

They don't have names, these humans, they just are microphones.

And they'll be going around and sticking the microphone under your nose so you can ask Richard and Emma your questions a little bit later.

Now the sound of the rain is actually bordering on deafening at the moment, isn't it?

So we're competing with some rather fantastic, slow, maybe quite sensual music and that's a rare background for our podcast, but I think it could work, Jane.

Yes, I'm not sure we're able to compete with it all that well, to be honest.

No, And now the sound of rain on Marquis roof has rather given away the reason why we've got a full Marquis this evening.

So Richard and Emma will be joining us in a moment.

It is probably worth saying that 1 of the subjects that has galvanised our listeners to the podcast this week has been climate and the weather.

And people have been emailing about their horrendous holidays abroad.

And I'm in no way joking about this because it sounds absolutely diabolical in parts of southern Europe right now and you've got some of those emails haven't you?

Well, we have and actually we started off the week on our Times radio show just talking about the way that we just have to change our own journalism regarding how we report especially on summer holidays because invariably the way that we're talking about Europe at the moment is putting ourself at the heart of the story and saying isn't it awful, you know, all of these poor people are going on holiday and they're having to stay in their air-conditioned villas or they're having a very difficult time trying to get to see the Coliseum.

And of course that's just, I think most of you here I think would agree that we should be beyond that place in our own heads at the moment and we should be able to see the damage that we're all doing to the planet in a much kind of clearer way.

So quite a lot of our emailers this week have completely agreed with that.

And I'll tell you what actually, here's a random question for you.

Do we have any air conditioning engineers in the house?

Because we wanted to have quite a proper conversation about whether or not we should just ban air conditioning, because it's nonsense, isn't it?

To just keep increasing the planet's surface temperature and then just using more and more energy to cool ourselves down.

And then Jade and I realised we didn't really understand how air conditioning worked anyway.

I don't think you're going to get an air conditioning engineer to agree to ban air conditioning.

And it might be too much to explain it as well with the rain.

being able to even hear that conversation as it takes place.

You can email our podcast, and many people do very regularly, which we're really delighted about.

And no, and I do mean this, no subject is off limits.

We've had some amazing conversations on the podcast in the last couple of weeks about all manner of things and you are very welcome to contribute.

So it's janeandfee at times.radio and unlike radio which is governed by Ofcom, on podcasts you can say more or less what you like within reason, including mild swearing and various suggestive remarks.

So, podcasts are like the Wild West of the broadcasting arena, aren't they?

Well, and you like to have a drink during the podcast as well.

I don't normally drink during podcasts, but I do find this sort of thing weirdly terrifying.

You all seem reasonable, but it is frightening.

And they breed a tougher sort of woman, I think.

Well, I'm not sure about that, but I've been on the receiving end of Jane's Liverpudlian-based, very barbed comments about my upbringing for a long time now, and I feel that I need to stay sober in order to stay sharp in order to rebut it.

The contingent who are sitting just over there, you're getting a kind of jungle view of proceedings, aren't you?

I tell you what, because this is being recorded as part of our podcast feed, so we kind of have to give a nod to people who will be downloading it at a time in the future.

We should note Jenny, who sent us an email to say that she's very, very sad that we're only at latitude briefly.

Jenny says, I feel like I'm destined never to see you live.

My first attempt got cancelled due to COVID.

Second was thwarted by feeling unsure of going alone.

That's been a huge topic on our podcast, going out to see things on your own, especially if you're a woman.

Has anybody come to see us today on their own?

There's absolutely nowt wrong with it, is there?

So Jenny, I'm sorry about that and I hope that you'll come and see us another time.

And Jenny goes on to say, I'll be setting up camp in the family camping before leaving my husband and son and returning home with my daughter who has serious FOMO around missing the last day of term.

Luckily we're close enough that this is possible but I'm hugely aggrieved to miss you especially when it sounds like you'll be running away as quickly as possible and Jenny sent us clear road vibes to get us through the A12 roadworks which I have to say were absolutely clear today.

So could you be very kind and just all say, what should we say to Jenny?

Because this will be absolutely frightening her knobs off when

Just something positive like, hello Jenny.

You see Jenny, loads of other people made the effort, So you weren't missed.

No, Jenny, I'm really sorry that you're not here.

And next time we're round and about, if we are allowed out again, please do come and see us.

So do we have any word on when Emma and Richard?

To the relief of the audience, let's ask them to come on stage.

Is it nice to get some time away from Emma?

I am in the programme as sous-chef but all I've done is cut some rosemary.

You'd better explain exactly what you're doing with cooking.

So there's a dinner every night, they have a sort of guest chef and 300 people have a dinner curated by somebody.

I remember Gary Lineker doing it last year, I think Sophie Ellis-Bexter's doing it in a couple of days' time.

And the food is very particular in our 1.

So Kazem knows so much about it, she's such an expert, but the name of, as it were, the night is Suffolk actually, because everything, in the whole thing, all the food, all the ingredients, all the art, everything is from Suffolk.

Okay, so you've also got, and we'll come back and talk about the chef thing a little bit more, but you've got a, is it another show coming up that's called Christmas, actually?

Yeah, it's a really useful word, isn't it?

So do you put it on the end of everything in your house?

Well, I'm just advising you, you can put it on the end of yours.

There's probably quite a nasty book that I saw on the shelves in America called Shit, actually, which has quite a long chapter about my film, which the author clearly didn't enjoy.

So, no, I don't think it's been copyrighted.

Yeah, but we are doing a kind of Christmas box of tricks, a massive sort of variety show at the Royal Festival Hall for Comic Relief at Christmas.

Well, look, people might mock Love Actually, but I'm just going to ask the marquee, how many people here have seen Love Actually?

It's like that moment the other day, how many people think we should send people to Rwanda?

How many people think that it's a disgraceful film about stalkers sexism and exploitation?

I mean, let's just be honest There are aspects of the plot that haven't aged all that.

I like to think though that like me, they just haven't aged well.

So I think it's fair, it's a reflection of the author.

Do you think you get more flack for that than other writers get?

Because there are loads and loads of films that haven't really aged particularly well.

No I mean I think in the because there's quite a lot about Bridget Jones as well for instance you know I think when you're dealing in the field of romantic comedy and when things are changing fast, as it were, when between you and the work of art comes the Me Too movement, I think you would you would expect it.

Can you tell us a little bit more about what will be on the menu?

And you have cooked for some extraordinary people in your time haven't you?

We cooked a cake together I think and then I loved her so much and I even though I'd licked her when she came she didn't mind

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