A Writer’s Life No.5: Keeping An Ear Open

I overheard this on the tube yesterday.

‘I was hosting a health talk show, sort of like Dr Miriam Stoppard, and I’d taken so many pills I had no idea what I was saying.’

‘Oh? I trod on her foot once, you know.’

I love overhearing odd snippets of conversation. Joe Orton was famous for making notes on [...]