Feature interview: an ecosystem of misbehavior

People generally fall into two camps; messy or tidy. We all know that person who can't relax until everything is in its place. And then there are the friends who can live quite happily amid piles of laundry, cluttered benches and cupboards they'd rather not open. The big question is, can a messy pe…

Philippa Rennie joins Afternoons to share what she's been enjoying. Youth - HBO Max. Happiness (Season Two) TV3/Sky.

It began with a mother of nine. When she was around 41, her youngest daughter Barb noticed a change in the woman she'd always known as loving and attentive. Her mother descended into alcoholism and depression. Then, one by one, Barb's siblings began to change too. Eventually five of her eight sibli…

It's time for our expert feature now, and today we're talking ties. How they're made, how to wear them, and frankly, why we wear them. Please send your tie-related questions through to 2101 and I'll put them to our expert John Crompton. John is the fourth generation of his family to run Parisian, a…