A vintage edition of From Our Own Correspondent last Saturday.
Kevin Connolly, a fine wordsmith, kept me listening with his report from a pet market in Tripoli where “The distinction between pet and pot is uncomfortably blurred.”
And then Jonathan Fryer's meeting with a family Togo who have become known for frequently producing twins over the generations, from which I learned that the Yoruba consider the first-born twin to be the younger, sent out to scout the world for the elder.
