Perhaps it was her liberal background that enabled Barbara Hosking to serve equally well Harold Wilson and Edward Heath. I wonder if she ever visited Transport House or Conservative Central Office, on opposite corners of Smith Square? If so, I could have passed her in the street in the early 1960s (as I once encountered Earl Attlee) without realising how important she was.
Anyway, I was glad to make her acquaintance today through her appearance on Radio 3's Private Passions. I must admit that, if I had been in the interviewer's chair, I would have asked her to add to the evidence against the post-mortem and clearly spurious allegations about Edward Heath - but perhaps there is something in her memoirs about that.
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