Mel and Sue – how their names trip off the tongue mellifluously – have been bosom buddies for coming on three decades. They are the winning court jesters who have cleaved themselves to the affections of the nation, with the rise and rise of Bake Off. It’s a measure of the show’s success that there …
My interview with Melvyn Bragg in the House of Lords is a bit like a Carry On film. It had been his job to book somewhere quiet for us to talk but the dining room at teatime, alas, is chocka with chattering Lords, and we have to move into a small room that Bragg likens …
John Humphrys has a reputation as the rottweiler of Today. But interrogating the interrogator, Ginny Dougary discovers a self-critical soul who talks of life, death, fear and fatherhood John Humphrys, the so-called rottweiler of Radio 4, is in fact a pussycat. This would have been more of a surprise if I were one of the …