Churchillian connections for this week's podcast. The obituary of Mary Soames shows her affinity with her father Winston Churchill and her uneasy relationship with her mother Clementine.

Christy Campbell is here in the studio to talk about the brave efforts by Commander Ronald Borner to put into effect one of Churchill's wheezes: fluvial mines in the Rhine. Then there's glamour, with the life of Barbara Murray, star of Passport to Pimlico.

And of course Christopher Howse is here with your letters. What did your mother say when you asked: "What's for dinner?"