I've watched you for 20 years, Valerie. Twenty years in an industry that offered you nothing but humiliation. I don't know how you kept going. THE COMEBACK 3.08

GEORGE FOURACRES | Interview | MR PORTER | April 2026

TONY & MONICA BADDINGHAM - 2x06

Mount Etna, Italy by Bernard M

cabin pressure (a-z): ottery st mary

Photographed by @achillesinhighheels

sandro botticelli, dante and beatrice in stars

im literally always saying this

man, you're not getting a gift for Female Domestic Partner. you're getting a gift for Natalie, a person whom you have been married to for 7 years, whom has lived in the same home with you for a decade, whom speaks to you every day about her thoughts and interests, whom you presumably love, and whom you can directly or indirectly ask what she wants. it's not that you don't know what half the human population wants, that's irrelevant. you don't know what Natalie wants and that is inexcusable.

Gule rølliker, hvide skærmplanter og brombær ved en mark, 1896 by Emma Auguste Løffler (Danish, 1843-1929)

That’s what the labour movement means. Should mean. You support me and I support you. Whoever you are. Wherever you come from. Shoulder to shoulder. Hand to hand."

MAD MEN | 4.7, "The Suitcase"

Elsewhere on Radio 4 was always the best thing in the very fun Bleak Expectations too.

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.