A WONDERFUL moment in a wonderful play. It’s the point in A Man for All Seasons where Thomas More faces the evidence trumped up against him to get him beheaded and rid Henry VIII of a turbulent priest who will not countenance the monarch divorcing his wife.

WHENEVER a no-hoper on Joe Duffy’s radio programme warbles about some issue not germane to Joe’s oh-so-casually-suggested agenda, Joe tips the warbler straight into an electronic waste-disposer: warm thanks, bye now and hello to Eleanor on line three.