I will listen to this one as I listen to all the others, but I must say I have never understood the appeal of this film. And not just because it’s mawkish - also because how clumsily plotted it is.

That’s wonderful 😊 Almost 50 years ago (yes, I’m that old) I hesitated over a four-volume Nonesuch Shakespeare, and missed it. Regretted it ever since. A few years back I found one again online and bought it 👍

Not a great analogy in that FT headline, really: if you steady a sinking ship, there’s a good chance it will sink faster.

That’s true. Nigel Farage, the Poundland Trump.

One day you’ll all wake up and DJT won’t be in the news any more. Here in the UK, it seemed that day would never come for Boris Johnson, but it did, it did. And it will for you too, even though your case is way, way worse.

Lovely. I have a signed book of his somewhere.

I love Toni Collette. I will watch her in anything

Perhaps he can take a stroll along the seafront and buy himself a burger khalifa

YES. Strangely, perhaps, the idea of men wearing tight red trousers is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of this book.

Looking forward to listening to this…

Looking forward to this! Btw are you considering an episode on the trial of Stephen Ward in the Profumo Affair? There’s another trial that on the face of it wasn’t political but in reality was…

Thank you! 👍

Sorry, Tim: QTWAIN?

“Worth the trouble I cause.” Lovely 😊

There you and I must part company. Each to their own, I know, but for me, ketchup is… grim.

This begs the question of what else should be on your list of best tomato innovations of tomato history. I suggest Raymond Blanc’s tomato salad recipe (tbf he credits it to his mum). From memory, easily findable in an online search.