“... more than a year later thanks, in part, to US pressure orchestrated by her old Harvard friend Peter Galbraith. She later described the period in her memoir, Daughter of the East (1988); it included photo-captions such as: ‘Shortly after President Reagan praised the regime for making “great strides towards democracy”, Zia’s henchmen gunned down ...”

“... was not over. It would never be over. But it was over.’ ‘I have​ to admit,’ Adam Mars-Jones wrote in 1992, that when I read an optimistic newspaper item about treatment, vaccine or cure, I feel almost threatened. Part of it is simply the sense of having been fooled before. There is also a particular pang involved, the sense that impending reprieve ...”

“... first Kevin!’12 August. The BBC are planning some élite channel, and have written to Anthony Jones, my literary agent, saying that since I was so distinguished and award-winning etc they would be happy to pay £3500 for my entire oeuvre. What happens if you’re not distinguished and award-winning? my agent wonders. Do you pay them?Read an article ...”

“... for the film was written by the poet and communist Montagu Slater, who wrote the libretto for Peter Grimes and worked with Auden on John Grierson documentaries such as Coal Face. Elisabeth Lutyens composed the music. She supplemented her income from writing orchestral and chamber music by creating scores for horror films and her skills in melodrama came ...”

“... associates denied that psychoanalysis had anything to do with politics. In a letter to Ernest Jones, the president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Anna Freud wrote that her father couldn’t ‘wait to get rid of’ Reich. ‘What my father finds offensive in Reich,’ she explained, ‘is the fact that he has forced psychoanalysis to ...”

“... no need sometimes for the deity to draw attention to himself so obviously. It had something of St Peter and the cock crowing thrice about it, not an incident Father Jolliffe was particularly fond of as it showed Jesus up as a bit of an ‘I told you so’, which on the quiet the priest felt he sometimes was anyway. Today, though, the intervention of the clock ...”