The truth about thwarted ambition

We are not, and will never be, Anna from 'This Life'.

Until normal service resumes, I thought I’d replay something I wrote back in 2020¹, one of my favourite pieces of my own – I don’t have many. It was inspired by the sudden appearance of ultimate 1990s drama ‘This Life’² on BBC iPlayer and was pitched to a national newspaper but they didn’t return my email. For the uninitiated, I extol the virtues and damn…