Jo Rowntree News Today

I almost couldn’t listen to The Bright Side of Life (Radio 4). Its subject matter – the BBC broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby speaking to his younger brother, the sculptor Nicholas, following Nicholas’s diagnosis with motor neurone disease (known as MND, or ALS) in February this year – felt too raw, too close, too unbearable.

“YES, Victoria your school discus throwing record still stands after 39 years!”

Chris van Tulleken is on a mission to get his twin Xand to quit ultra-processed food.