Saw this and thought it was that billionaire who's trying to live to 200

“We're always there to soundtrack that ‘tears in the toilet’ moment.”

Pet Shop Boys are back and they spoke to @samiraahmeduk about new album #Nonetheless , their long career and their unique brand of sad but happy music...

Very much enjoyed testing the limits of my comprehension this morning with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold. Though we barely scratched the surface.
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Ripley is very good on what sheer bloody hard work murder is. Honestly. The to-do list is a nightmare. And people are so nosy…

Huge excitement at Mutton Mansions as our new laundry basket arrives. It lives in Shoreditch and won’t countenance polyester.

This, from Andrew O’Hagan’s marvellously enjoyable Caledonian Road, as the characters enjoy a high-end Reykjavik restaurant.

Well if this isn't a portent I don't know what is...

Don’t know how many Swifties I have in my timeline but we’re reviewing The Tormented Poets Department tonight. Join us at 7:15. And Hettie Judah on the Venice Biennale.

It's wrong to assume Trump is asleep in court. His lawyers point out that he clearly has his eyes open.

My Apple Watch hugely impressed with my swim today. The final stretch up Ferme Park Road *was* pretty tough going.

Found this painting in a charity shop, I think it's a Constable.

iPhone found on a Piccadilly line train at Kings Cross Saint Pancras station last night (around 4am this morning!) Phone was dead so it’s currently charging. Please retweet so I can return to owner

'I’ve lost more than one friend over politics.’

Author Lionel Shriver tells Samira Ahmed about her new novel Mania, featuring two friends on either side of a fictional culture war.

Catch up with the full interview on @bbcsounds now 🎧

Studies in courage.

I’m chickening out and will be talking about the new album on Monday’s BBC Front Row

Brava Hadley Freeman. Nerveless in the best way.

I did have fun talking about Baby Reindeer, and London Tide and Salman Rushdie’s book Knife with John Mullan and Tahmima Anam Aman. You might not have *quite* as much fun (you had to be there). But you’ll never know unless you listen. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

On Front Row tonight: Oxford Professor of Poetry Alicia E. Stallings and Fiona Stafford on the mad, bad, dangerously entertaining Lord Byron, Eamonn Forde and Fiona Bevan on Sped-up songs and John Akomfrah from the Venice Biennale. Join us at 7:15

On first day of 'Stormy Daniels payment' trial, Donald Trump accused of not being 'woke'

April showers
Shred the flowers