IT'S A MAN THING

Janet Street-Porter was on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last week and, as you might expect, she was sharply funny, unnervingly self-revelatory and (if you were in the same room, I would imagine) really rather scary!

Four times married (only a very small prize for guessing why), the most quotable quote from the interview was as follows...

"The trouble with MEN is they come
with droppings: the detritus of bloke!"

Still, it was reassuring (possibly) that - when it came to saying which one of her eight records she would take is she were only allowed one - she plumped for the Pet Shop Boys singing 'You Were Always on My Mind' rather than the mad scene from Lucia Di Lammermoor!

The Street-Porter portrait above is the work of the brilliant John Jensen from The Book of British Battleaxes by Christine Hamilton.

Visit John's website and explore his illustrations, cartoons and caricatures via the drop-down menu. And, for the benefit of overseas readers (and juveniles), here's the low-down on the unsinkable Ms Street-Porter from, as it were, the horse's mouth!

Image: © John Jensen 1997