The thorny issue of Margaret Thatcher’s rose rage

Most surprising of all was Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen (Radio 4, Friday) a new sitcom by the comedy writer David Quantick and starring, rather wonderfully,…

Gardeners’ Question Time used to be for silver-haired ladies, but that’s changed – gardening has got hip

It fascinates me when I meet glitzy people who are non-gardeners and they tell me: “Oh my God, I love Gardeners’ Question Time”. And you think, “What,…